Drunkard's Walk
by Frederik Pohl
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Average SF book from the 1960s. Pohl has done much better. The story took to long to develop. It became a story worth following in the last 30 pages. By the time it became interesting I had lost interest.
Maître Cornut était marqué par le Destin. En moins de deux mois, il avait commis dix tentatives de suicide - sans la moindre raison et sans le moindre résultat. Aussi extravagant que cela puisse paraître, Maître Cornut sentait bien qu'une puissance télépathique obscure et maléfique le poussait à la mort... Et puis il y eut cette épidémie de petite vérole, avec ses effets dévastateurs sur des millions de vies humaines. Mais pourquoi donc - plusieurs siècles après la découverte du vaccin - n'y avait-il pas de remède efficace ? Quelqu'un ou Quelque chose avait gravement perturbé la vie civilisée. Le monde était au bord de la catastrophe. Et la manie suicidaire de Maître Cornut était-elle l'indice ou la clé de la show more conspiration la plus cauchemardesque jamais ourdie contre la planète Terre? show less
Nov 21, 2010French
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Frederik Pohl was born in New York City on November 26, 1919. More interested in writing than in school, he dropped out of high school in his senior year and took a job with a publishing company. After serving as a public relations officer in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, he returned to publishing as copywriter for Popular Science, a show more literary agent for several sci-fi writers, and the editor for the magazines Galaxy and If from 1959 until 1969, with If winning three successive Hugo awards. His first published work, a poem entitled Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna, was printed in Amazing Stories magazine in 1937 under the pen name Elton Andrews. His first science fiction novels were published in the mid 1960's, some written in collaboration with other writers, others created alone. During his lifetime, he won over 16 major awards for his writing (much of which was published pseudonymously) including six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. His works include Gateway, which won the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and Jem, which won the National Book Award in 1979. He also embraced blogging in his later years, using his online journal as an ongoing sequel to his autobiography, The Way the Future Was. He died on September 2, 2013 at the age 93. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Tod den Unsterblichen
- Original title
- Drunkard's Walk
- Original publication date
- 1960
- People/Characters
- Cornut; Egerd; Master Carl; St Cyr; Wahl; Sant'Anna (show all 13); Roger; Sergeant Rhame; Farley; Jillson; Sam Gensel; Tai-i Masatura-san; Senator Dane
- First words
- The man's name is Cornut, born in the year 2166 and now thirty.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I'll always be back . . ." and he wondered how to tell her what "always" had suddenly come to mean to them.
- Publisher's editor*
- Schelwokat, GĂĽnter M.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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