The Far Shore of Time (Eschaton Sequence)

Name: The Far Shore of Time (Eschaton Sequence)
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ISBN: 9780613278218

by Unknown Author

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320 pages2000Tandem LibraryISBN 9780613278218

Fiction Science Fiction Science

About this book

"Frederik Pohl tells tale of adventure and suspense in the next century when humanity finds itself on the front of a war spanning all space and time."--BOOK JACKET. "When government agent Dan Dannerman joined a team investigating strange signals from deep space, he had no idea that he was about to be dragged into the midst of an interstellar war. Held captive on an alien world, Dannerman suffers horrific torture at the hands of the Beloved Leaders, an alien race working to bring about the eschaton - the collapse of the entire universe. When he is finally liberated in a sneak attack by the Horch, the sworn enemies of the Beloved Leaders, Dannerman is ready to strike back - but at whom?"--BOOK JACKET. "Trusting neither side, Dannerman must gain the trust of the Horch and somehow convince them to send him back to Earth on a mission to warn his fellow humans of the approaching conflict. Allying himself with these alien, enemies of humanity's enemies, he will return to an Earth stranger than he can possibly imagine, an Earth that already has two Dan Dannermans - an Earth under siege by the Beloved Leaders. ..."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication Details

Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: 2000
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780613278218
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them. He married his first wife in 1940. In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945. He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945. In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf. In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine. In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines. In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books. He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984. He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois.