Hey, I read one of his “lensman” books. I still have a copy. Can’t say I was real impressed.
I notice his middle name is Ackerman…
This really feels like the end of an era.
With any luck, he’s on a Singleship heading for one hell of a payday…
Kyle is far better known as a fan than as a writer. But he was a member of the Futurians, and that’s as seminal as sf gets. He also helped found Gnome Press and wrote some pop histories of the field.
I’m sure Pohl is the last major writer from that era. I’m sorry to have killed him. By which I mean that literally yesterday I remarked to my wife that he was the last big name still alive. My bad.
I thought “singleship” was a Niven thing. Pohl would be in a One.
Wow. Didn’t know he was still alive…
Gah, you are of course correct - I thought it sounded wrong when I typed it but it’s been awhile since I read Gateway. Here hands over SF Geek Card
The World at the End of Time was astoundingly inventive. I can only hope that a nearly-finished manuscript for the sequel will be found among his papers.
Godspeed, sir.
Noooo! 
He’s one of the rare authors where I could pick up any of his books and be confident that it would be a good read.
My favorite of his is O Pioneer. I don’t think it’s one of his more popular books, but I love it. Miss Brownbenttalon and Miss Whitenose just crack me up. The whole thing is just very silly.
Did you guys read his blog? Good stuff.
His blog has this at the top:
So still more to come.
I loved his SF, and I loved his non-fiction, too. I’ll miss him.
He was a neighbor of mine, in a sense. I grew up in the Palatine/Arlington Heights/etc area of Illinois, and I was delighted to learn a few years ago that he lived there, for apparently the last couple of decades of his life until he passed now. Happy trails, Fred!
The first real sf book I got was an old Ballantine copy of “Alternating Currents” which I liberated from my parents’ bookshelf. Still have it - it is a lot older now. I scored a copy of “Turn Left at Thursday” just a month ago.
He was a great editor as well as a great writer. He practically invented the original anthology with the Star Science Fiction series, the first of which is from 1953. I’m not aware of an older original anthologies.
What a loss! I have such fond memories of reading the original Heechee novels in the very early 90s, and in fact just read the last one, The Boy Who Would Live Forever, earlier this year.
One of my favorite authors.
Pohl was also a very important editor. He published both Dhalgren and The Female Man, both of which were somewhat risky choices, but both of which are acknowledged classics.
One of the great ones. Time to re-read some of his work that I read decades ago.
I’ve read the Heechee series and a few of his other books and liked them enough that I bought a big box of random Pohl books on ebay. The shipping cost more than the books did (about $40 I think). I’m still going through it. He was a great writer.