In the Problem Pit

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frederik Pohl is a double-threat science fictioneer, being tlie only person to have won science fiction's top award, the Hugo, both as an editor and as a writer. As a writer, he has published more than thirty novels and short story collections, including The Space Merchants (with C. M. Kornbluth), The Age of the Pussyfoot, Day Million and The Gold at the Starbow's End. His awards include four Hugos and the Edward E. Smith Award. As an editor, he published the first series of anthologies of original stories in the science fiction field, Star Science Fiction; was for many years the editor of two leading magazines in the field, Galaxy and If; and is currently science fiction editor of Bantam Books. His interests extend beyond science fiction to national affairs (his book, Practical Politics, was a handbook for party reformers in the 1972 election year); history, (he is the Encyclopedia Britannica's authority on the Roman emperor. Tiberius); and almost the entire range of human affairs. He is currently president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and makes his home in Red Bank, New Jersey.

THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, THE LAMPS OF HIS MOUTH by ROGER ZELAZNY

A collection of fifteen stories of man in the future, ranging in time from a few decades to a few millenia into the future, in setting from the solar system to deepest space. The prize-winning title story is the highly imaginative and very believable tale of a fishing expedition for an enormous sea monster under the oceans of the planet Venus; the rest of the collection maintains the high standard thus set, with tales of a rebellious preacher's son finding a different religion on Mars, of an expedition to an electrically-haunted mountain where a girl is discovered in hibernation state awaiting the discovery of a cure for her fatal disease, and of man's penchant for aggrandisement. All display the style, wit, imagination which have made Roger Zelazny one of the most highly praised writers of science fiction today.