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New Writings In SF 18
''New Writings in SF 18'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the eighteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in June 1971, followed by a paperback edition issued by Corgi later 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) *"Mistress of the Mind" (Lee Harding) *"Frontier Incident" ( Robert Wells) *"The Big Day" (Donald Malcolm) *"Major Operation" ( James White) *"The Cyclops Patrol" ( William Spencer) *"Some Dreams Come in Packages" (David A. Kyle) *"Django Maverick: 2051" (Grahame Leman Grahame is a surname or first name, and may refer to * Christine Grahame (born 1944), Scottish politician * Gloria Grahame (1923–1981), American actress * James Grahame (1756–1811), Scottish poet * John Grahame (born 1975), American ice hockey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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Corgi (publisher)
Transworld Publishers Ltd. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books. It publishes fiction and non fiction titles by various best-selling authors including Val Wood under several different imprints. Hardbacks are either published under the Doubleday or the Bantam Press imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan, Bantam or Corgi imprint. Terry Pratchett First Novel Award Transworld sponsors the Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels. See also * List of largest UK book publishers This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value. List According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were: # Penguin Random House ' ... References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grahame Leman
Grahame is a surname or first name, and may refer to * Christine Grahame (born 1944), Scottish politician * Gloria Grahame (1923–1981), American actress * James Grahame (1756–1811), Scottish poet * John Grahame (born 1975), American ice hockey player * Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), Scottish novelist (''The Wind in the Willows'') * Margot Grahame (1911–1982), English actress * Nikki Grahame (1982–2021), English Big Brother contestant * Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore (1735–1797), Scottish poet * Simon Grahame (1570–1614), Scottish writer * Leonard Grahame (1928–2000), actor who also wrote an epsidoe of ''The Saint'' * SS ''Grahame'', a sternwheeler, operated by the Hudson's Bay Company, on the Mackenzie River systerm Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *William Grahame (1808–1890) - member for Monaro 1865-69 and 1872-74 *William Grahame (1841–1906) - member for Newcastle 1889-89 and 1891-94 *William Calman Grahame William Calman Graham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kyle
David A. Kyle (February 14, 1919 – September 18, 2016) was an American science fiction writer and member of science fiction fandom. Professional career Kyle served as a reporter in the Air Force Reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel, writing civil defense material, while working at radio station WPDM in Potsdam, New York. With Martin Greenberg, Kyle founded Gnome Press in 1948. He wrote two pictorial histories of science fiction (''A Pictorial History of Science Fiction'' and ''The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams'') and three licensed novels set in the Lensman universe (''The Dragon Lensman'', ''Lensman from Rigel'' and ''Z-Lensman''). He appeared with Paul Levinson, Greg Bear and many others on the History Channel's 2002 documentary, ''Fantastic Voyage: Evolution of Science Fiction''. He died at the age of 97 on September 18, 2016. Fandom Kyle, an active fan since the earliest days of organized science fiction fandom, was an original member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Spencer (science Fiction Writer)
William Spencer may refer to: Politicians * William Spencer (MP for Bristol), MP of Bristol 1467 * William Spencer (MP for Ipswich) (by 1473–1529 or later), MP for Ipswich 1510 * William Spencer (Sheriff) (c.1496–1532), High Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1531 * William Spencer (MP for Ripon), MP for Ripon 1584–1586 * William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer (1591–1636), British peer and MP for Brackley 1614 and Northamptonshire 1620–22 & 1624–27 * William Spencer (settler) (1825–1901), early settler and MP in Western Australia * William B. Spencer (1835–1882), U.S. Representative from Louisiana * William R. Spencer, Suffolk County Legislator, New York Fictional characters * Bill Spencer, Jr., a fictional character from the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' * Bill Spencer, Sr., a fictional character from the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' Sports * William Spencer (athlete) (1900–1983), American Olympic athlete * William Spencer (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James White (author)
James White (7 April 1928 – 23 August 1999) was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the clothing industry, he worked at Short Brothers Ltd., an aircraft company based in Belfast, from 1965 until taking early retirement in 1984 as a result of diabetes. White married Margaret Sarah Martin, another science fiction fan, in 1955 and the couple had three children. He died of a stroke. He became a fan of science fiction in 1941 and co-wrote two fan magazines, from 1948 to 1953 and 1952 to 1965. Encouraged by other fans, White began publishing short stories in 1953, and his first novel was published in 1957. His best-known novels were the twelve of the Sector General series, the first published in 1962 and the last after his death. White also published nine other novels, two of which were nominated for major awards, unsuccessful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Malcolm
Donald Malcolm (1930–2013) was a Scottish author of science fiction and fact who was active as a writer from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. Some of his nonfiction was written under the pen name Roy Malcolm. Career Malcolm's work was published in the magazines ''New Worlds'', ''Nebula Science Fiction'', ''Astounding Science Fiction'', the anthology series ''New Writings in SF'', and the anthologies ''Out of This World 4'' (1964), ''Lambda I and Other Stories'' (1965), and ''Starfield'' (1989). His reviews appeared in the magazine ''Vector''. Much of Malcolm's short fiction falls into two sequences, the "Preliminary Exploration Team" and the "Dream Background" stories. Neither series has been collected. His novels, both published by Laser Books Laser Books was a line of 58 paperback science fiction (SF) novels published from 1975 to 1977 by Canadian romance powerhouse Harlequin Books. Laser published three titles per month, available by subscription as well as in stores. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wells (author)
Robert Wells may refer to: * Bob "Hoolihan" Wells (born 1933), American TV personality * Rob Wells (born 1972), Canadian musician, songwriter and producer * Robb Wells (born 1971), Canadian actor and screenwriter * Robby Wells (born 1968), American college football coach * Kip Wells (Robert Wells, born 1977), American baseball player * Bob Wells (baseball) (Robert Lee Wells, born 1966), American baseball pitcher * Robert Wells (boxer) (born 1961), British boxer * Robert Wells (Canadian politician) (born 1933), lawyer, judge and politician in Newfoundland, Canada * Robert Wells (composer) (born 1962), Swedish composer, pianist and singer * Robert Wells (poet) (born 1947), British poet * Robert Wells (songwriter) (1922–1998), American songwriter, co-wrote The Christmas Song with Mel Tormé * Robert Joseph Wells (1856–1941), American politician in Minnesota * Robert William Wells (1795–1864), United States federal judge See also * Bob Wells (other) * Robert We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Harding (writer)
Lee John Harding (born 19 February 1937) is an Australian freelance photographer, who became a writer of science fiction novels and short stories. Science fiction writing Born in Colac, Victoria, and an enthusiastic fan of science fiction, Harding was among the founding members of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club. Other members of the club were Race Mathews, Bertram Chandler, Bob McCubbin, Merv Binns and Dick Jenssen. Harding's first published work appeared in the Sydney photographic magazine PHOTO DIGEST in 1958: a photographic coverage of the filming of Nevil Shute's novel ON THE BEACH in Melbourne and Frankston locations, accompanied by a personal written record of his adventures there. This led to a request for a regular monthly column for the magazine on 35mm photography, and a subsequent photographic and written coverage of the filming of THE SUNDOWNERS, in Cooma, NSW. In 1961 Harding's first published short story, ''Displaced Person'', was published in ''Science F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Books
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication. Alternatively, it can also be a collection of selected writings (short stories, poems etc.) by one author. Complete collections of works are often called "complete works" or "" (Latin equivalent). Etymology The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία (''anthologic'', literally "a collection of blossoms", from , ''ánthos'', flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the ''Garland'' (, ''stéphanos''), the introduction to which compares each of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
