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O Pioneer!

64.3% complete
1998
Unknown
Never (or unknown...)
29 chapters
Book Cover
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3187
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Copyright © 1998 by Frederik Pohl
To Betty Anne
for, among other reasons,
keeping me alive
Evesham Giyt's mailing address was care of the Bal Harbor Residential Park, but he didn't use the address much.
May contain spoilers
I just don't want to."
Comments may contain spoilers
Originally published in a somewhat different form in Analog, October through December 1997.
Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 21-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 21-Jun-2022

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 01-Apr-1999
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-1999
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$6.99
Pages*:
254
Internal ID:
2651
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-45444-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-45444-4
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Jim Burns  - Cover Artist
Carol Russo Design - Cover Design
James Frenkel - Editor
A Pioneer from Earth

The overcrowded Earth isn't room enough for Evesham Giyt, a solitary and brilliant computer hacker who yearns for the long-gone frontiers of the past.  Chasing stories of unspoiled beauty and endless possibility, he takes a leap across the stars to the rugged colony world of Tupelo and soon finds himself a respected member of the community and mayor of the colony's human population.

Humanity isn't the first race to colonize Tupelo: as mayor, Giyt is part of a council of races trying to peacefully coexist despite wildly disperate cultures and traditions.  But as Giyt learns to like his alien neighbors, he begins to realize that his fellow humans may have other plans for Tupelo, plans that don't include peace but do include lots of dead aliens.  It will be up to Giyt to crack the human conspiracy and carve out a future for all of Tupelo... before it gets him killed!

"Another fine work from one of our finest craftsmen."
- Jack Williamson, author of The Silicon Dagger

"A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable story from one of the most reliable writers in the field."
- Science Fiction Chronicle
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Notes and Comments:
First edition: May 1988
First mass market edition: April 1999
Canada: $8.99

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Author(s)

Frederik Pohl  
Birth: 26 Nov 1919 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Death: 02 Sep 2013 Palatine, IL, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" page in "The Siege of Eternity":

A mutliple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Frederik Pohl has done just about everything one can do in the science-fiction field.  His most famous work is undoubtedly the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.  Man Plus won the Nebula Award.  His mature work is marked by a serious intellectual agenda and strongly held sociopolitical beliefs, without sacrificing narrative drive.  In addition to his successful solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated successfully with a variety of writers, including C. M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.  A Pohl/Kornbluth collabortation, The Space Merchants, is a long-time classic of satiric science fiction.  The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.  Pohl has been a magazine editor in the field since he was very young, piloting World of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine.  He also has edited original-story anthologies, including the early and notable Star series of the early 1950s.  He has at various times been a literary agent, and editor of lines of science fiction books, and a president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  For a number of years he has been active in the World SF movement.  He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, a prominent academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live outside Chicago, Illinois.

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