What do You think about The World At The End Of Time (1992)?
Having just ground my way through my first , I wasn't expecting to enjoy this too much -- hard sci-fi on the epic scale is often best in moderation. I was pretty impressed by this one.I've read Pohl before -- although I can't put my finger on a specific title beyond the cover of Land's End looking awfully familiar -- as a lesser star in the Clarke / Asimov / Heinlein galaxy. This one has some spectacularly outlandish happenings well thought-out, and decent characters (like his entire generation of SF writers, he writes men better than women).Worth a read, although it might be a while before I pick up another Pohl.
—Randal
I was lent this book by a friend. I had never read anything by Frederik Pohl before, but I knew of him because he wrote the introduction to the collection of Cyril Kornbluth's short stories that I read recently.This was a cracking good read. Hard scifi, mildly didactic regarding stellar astrophysics, along with some reasonable speculations about setting up colony ships that cannot travel faster than light. Pohl played around with General Relativity and some of the proposals that have been floate
—Benjamin Espen
An incredible pure-science-fiction book!The breathtaking quest of a man and a plasm-organism through time and space is presented in parallel together with their experiences and problems and everything is described scientifically in huge details which doesn't disturb the fast track of a tiny galaxy through the universe while it collapses together with all the stars.So what shall that part of mankind which survived on the newly colonated Newmanshome do without a sun or any other source of energy?And what does the plasm-organism Wan-to who/which hasn't even heard of material beings have in common with this catastrophe?
—Gergana
