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Joseph Green (science Fiction Author)
Joseph Lee Green (born 1931) is an American science fiction author and a charter member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is a prolific short story author best known for his novel ''Gold the Man''. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, Polish and Dutch. Biography Green was born in 1931. He received his BA from the University of Alabama and has variously worked as a mill hand, construction worker and a supervisor for Boeing. His chief employment was in the American space program for which he worked for 37 years, retiring from NASA as Deputy Chief of the Education Office at Kennedy Space Center. His specialty was the preparation of NASA fact sheets, brochures and other such publications for the general public, in which complex scientific and engineering concepts were explained in layman's language. Bibliography Fiction Novels * ''The Loafers of Refuge'' (1965) * '' Gold the Man'' (also known as ''The Mind Behind the Eye'', (1971) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New Writings In SF 2
''New Writings in SF 2'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the second volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in 1964, followed by a paperback edition under the slightly variant title ''New Writings in S.F.-2'' by Corgi in 1965, and an American paperback edition by Bantam Books in October 1966. Selections from this volume, together with others from volumes 1 and 3-4 of the series, were later included in ''The Best from New Writings in SF'', issued by Dobson in 1971 and Corgi in 1972. The book collects eight novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. Contents *"Foreword" (John Carnell) *"Hell-Planet" ( John Rackham) *"The Night-Flame" (Colin Kapp) *"The Creators" ( Joseph Green) *"Rogue Leonardo" ( G. L. Lack) *"Maiden Voyage" (John Rankine) *"Odd Boy Out" (Dennis Etchison) *"The Eternal Machines" (William Browni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Science Fiction Writers
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The Last Dangerous Visions
''The Last Dangerous Visions'' is an unpublished speculative fiction anthology intended to follow ''Dangerous Visions'' (1967) and ''Again, Dangerous Visions'' (1972). Like its predecessors, it was edited by American author Harlan Ellison, with introductions to be provided by him. Ellison died in 2018 with work on the anthology still incomplete, but on November 13, 2020, the Ellison estate's executor J. Michael Straczynski announced his intention to publish it. Background The projected third collection was started but, controversially, has yet to be finished. It has become something of a legend in science fiction as the genre's most famous unpublished book. It was originally announced for publication in 1973, but has not seen print to date. Ellison came under criticism for his treatment of some writers who submitted their stories to him, who some estimate to number nearly 150. Many of these writers have since died. British author Christopher Priest, whose story " An Infinite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Writings In SF 19
''New Writings in SF 19'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the nineteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in 1971, followed by a paperback edition issued by Corgi the same year. The book collects seven novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. Contents *"Foreword" (John Carnell) *"The Mind Prison" (Michael G. Coney) *"A Memory of Golden Sunshine" (Kenneth Bulmer Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction. Life Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. B ...) *"Critical Path" ( David Coles) *"The Discontent Contingency" ( Vincent King) *"Stoop to Conquer" ( John Rackham) *"First Light on a Darkling Plain" ( Joseph Green) *"Real-Time World" ( Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Science Fiction And Fact
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Clayton, and edited by Harry Bates. Clayton went bankrupt in 1933 and the magazine was sold to Street & Smith. The new editor was F. Orlin Tremaine, who soon made ''Astounding'' the leading magazine in the nascent pulp science fiction field, publishing well-regarded stories such as Jack Williamson's '' Legion of Space'' and John W. Campbell's "Twilight". At the end of 1937, Campbell took over editorial duties under Tremaine's supervision, and the following year Tremaine was let go, giving Campbell more independence. Over the next few years Campbell published many stories that became classics in the field, including Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series, A. E. van Vogt's ''Slan'', and several novels and stories by Robert A. Heinle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Writings In SF 17
''New Writings in SF 17'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the seventeenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in 1970, followed by a paperback edition issued under the slightly variant title ''New Writings in SF -- 17'' by Corgi (publisher), Corgi the same year. The book collects seven novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. Contents *"Foreword" (John Carnell) *"More Things in Heaven and Earth" (H. A. Hargreaves) *"Aspect of Environment" (L. Davison) *"Soul Survivors" (Lee Harding (writer), Lee Harding) *"Death and the Sensperience Poet" (Joseph L. Green, Joseph Green) *"Two Rivers" (R. W. Mackelworth) *"The Hero" (Ernest Hill (author), Ernest Hill) *"The True Worth of Ruth Villiers" (Michael G. Coney) External links * 1970 anthologies New Writings in SF anthology series, 17 {{1970s-sf-story-col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy & Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue. ''F&SF'' was quite different in presentation from the existing science fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in pulp magazine, pulp format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley (writer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Writings In SF 15
''New Writings in SF 15'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the fifteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in 1969, followed by a paperback edition issued under the slightly variant title ''New Writings in SF-15'' by Corgi the same year. The book collects six novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. The third and fourth stories were later reprinted in the American edition of '' New Writings in SF 9''. Contents *"Foreword" ( John Carnell) *"Report from Linelos" (Vincent King) *"The Interrogator" ( Christopher Priest) *"When I Have Passed Away" ( Joseph Green) *"Symbiote" (Michael G. Coney) *"The Trial" ( Arthur Sellings) *"Therapy 2000" (Keith Roberts Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000) was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
