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J. T. McIntosh
James Murdoch MacGregor (14 February 1925 – 22 July 2008National Library of ScotlandSpecial and Named Printed Collections in the National Library of Scotland ''J.T. McINTOSH COLLECTION'') was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh. Biography Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, but living largely in Aberdeen, MacGregor used the pseudonym McIntosh (along with its variants J. T. MacIntosh, and J. T. M'Intosh) as well as "H. J. Murdoch", "Gregory Francis" (with Frank H. Parnell), and "Stuart Winsor" (with Jeff Mason) for all his science fiction work, which was the majority of his literature, though he did publish books by his own name. His first story, "The Curfew Tolls", was published in the magazine '' Astounding Science Fiction'' during 1950, and his first novel, ''World Out of Mind'', was published during 1953. He did not publish any work after 1980. He died on 22 July 2008. Along with John Mather and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machine Made
"Machine Made" is a science fiction short story by Scottish writer J. T. McIntosh, originally published in the Summer 1951 issue of ''New Worlds (magazine), New Worlds'' magazine. One of its author's earliest genre works, it was also his first to appear in a British publication. It was anthologized at least five times, including volumes edited by Groff Conklin and by John Carnell, and was translated into French for the 1974 volume ''Histoires de machines''. Plot A young woman with a stunted intellect, being the victim of brain damage from birth, is hired on to perform basic menial labor (such as janitorial services) in a facility dedicated to the operation and programming of a mainframe computer. In her free time, she is curious whether the machine can add and subtract some basic numbers when she types them in. She has checked the results when she goes home, and sometimes spends days adding and subtracting the numbers to see if the results are correct. When she is at work, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
