All the Lives He Led : A Novel (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

My first Pohl. A decent introduction to his novels, although it does seem incomplete at times. The setting (Pompeii, 2000 years after the eruption) and narration are done very well. The plot is trifling stuff, but that doesn't matter as much. It's a fun explosive (ha-ha-ha) read, and I'll keep se...

from bezoar44

I found the narrator so annoying - unreflective and pessimistic in his narration, unevenly canny and naive in his behavior -- that I almost put the book down around page 30, but the jacket seemed to promise a story with action and romance, and I was in the mood for a futuristic thriller or myster...

from nmele

I was pleasantly surprised to find Frederick Pohl still writing novels in his nineties, and quite pleased to read this novel in which he posits a world where terrorism is a given. Pohl then explores this world in what looks like a coming of age novel but is actual a novel of ideas, among those id...

from Fledgist

It's the late 21st century, and the United States has been devastated by the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Brad Sheridan is an American trying to hustle his way through the Old World, and dealing with the horrors it confronts -- terrorism, anti-Americanism, trying to find the right gi...

from Guide2

Story based in the mid-future basically about terrorism and love. Somewhat of a weird mix...