Stopping at Slowyear

1991 novel by Frederik Pohl

CoverartistRob Alexander

LanguageEnglish

Stopping at Slowyear
First edition
Author	Frederik Pohl
Cover artist	Rob Alexander
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Axolotl Press
Publication date	1992
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	150
ISBN	0-553-29487-3
OCLC	25808833

Stopping at Slowyear is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl.^[1]^[2]

Stopping at Slowyear tells the story of an interstellar cargo vessel which runs between out-of-the-way worlds, as it visits a planet called Slowyear after its 19-year-long revolution around its star.

The crew explore the local culture and find several odd customs. Among these is of a sort of death lottery as a punishment for crimes. If someone commits a crime, they are sentenced to take a pill, which depending on the severity of the infraction will have a different probability of being lethal poison.^[3]

Slowyear's principal industry is raising sheep. During their isolation, their sheep have developed a form of scrapie which is lethal to humans without immunity.

Stopping at Slowyear addressed prion diseases^[3] years before public awareness of mad cow disease was widespread.

References

↑ "Title: Stopping at Slowyear". isfdb.org. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
↑ “Review of Stopping at Slowyear.” Library Journal. Library Journals, LLC, 1992.
1 2 McClintock, Michael W. "The Problem of Stopping at Slowyear." Extrapolation 38, no. 4 (Winter, 1997): 304.

External links

Stopping at Slowyear title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

v t e Works by Frederik Pohl
Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1956) Undersea City (1958)
Heechee Saga	Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)
Eschaton trilogy	The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) The Far Shore of Time (1999)
Mars series	Man Plus (1976) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)
Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)	Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around a Star (1983)
The Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969)
Space Merchants series	The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) The Merchants' War (1984) Venus, Inc. (1985 Omnibus) (this is a two-in-one volume containing The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War)
Other	Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Preferred Risk (1955) (with Lester del Rey) Slave Ship (1956) Presidential Year (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Wolfbane (1959) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Day Million (1970) The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975) Jem (1979) The Cool War (1981) Syzygy (1981) Starburst (1982) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) Terror (1986) Chernobyl (1987) Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson) The Day the Martians Came (1988) Narabedla Ltd. (1988) Homegoing (1989) The World at the End of Time (1990) Outnumbering the Dead (1990) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson) Mining the Oort (1992) The Voices of Heaven (1994) O Pioneer! (1998) The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C. Clarke) All the Lives He Led (2011)

Authority control databases	Open Library

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