Frederik Pohl, an acclaimed science fiction author and editor who had a career spanning over 75 years, has died at the age of 93. According to his official website, where Pohl continued to write through the final weeks of his life, Pohl died of respiratory failure on the afternoon of September 2nd. io9 has published a comprehensive look back at Pohl's life work as a pioneer of the science fiction genre — at a time when the genre was "embracing its pulpiest tendencies," Pohl envisioned a world in which science fiction was seen as a category worth of literary praise.
The Space Merchants, one of Pohl's best-known novels, made good on that promise. It's a futuristic send-up of the advertising world that Pohl cut his teeth in; businesses...
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