Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Also in the 1970s Pohl reemerged as a novel writer in his own right with books such as Man Plus and the Heechee series. For his 1979 novel Jem Pohl won a U. He fathered four children: Ann (m.

From about 1959 until 1969 Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. Clarke and Andre Norton.