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Orbit (anthology Series)
''Orbit'' was a series of anthologies of new science fiction edited by Damon Knight, often featuring work by such writers as Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, R. A. Lafferty, and Kate Wilhelm. The anthologies tended toward the avant-garde edge of science fiction, but by no means exclusively; occasionally the volumes featured nonfiction critical writing or humorous anecdotes by Knight. Inspired by Frederik Pohl's '' Star Science Fiction'' series, and in its turn an influence on other original speculative fiction anthologies, it ran for over a decade and twenty-one volumes, not including a 1975 "Best of" collection selected from the first ten volumes. Orbit 1 '' Orbit 1'' was published in October 1966 by Berkley Medallion. Algis Budrys praised Knight's skills as editor and critic but said that the compilation "represents science fiction well but not to any extraordinary extent", with no story "clearly and obviously the 'best' of anything". He advised readers to buy the paperback version. Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Knight
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He is the author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for ''The Twilight Zone''.Stanyard, ''Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone'', p. 51. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm. Biography Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon in 1922, and grew up in Hood River, Oregon. He entered science-fiction fandom at the age of eleven and published two issues of a fanzine titled ''Snide''. Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stories''.Knight, "Knight Piece," Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison, ''Hell's Cartographers'', Orbit Books, 1976, p. 105. His first story, "The Itching Hour", appeared in the Summer 1940 number of ''Futuria Fantasia'', edited and published by Ray Bradbury. "Resilience" followed in the February 1941 number of ''Stirring Science Stories'', edited by Donald A. Wollh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Dorman
Sonya Dorman (June 4, 1924 – February 14, 2005), born Sonya Gloria Hess, was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005, at the age of 80. Dorman published around two dozen science fiction short stories between 1961 and 1980, and she was associated with science fictions "New Wave science fiction, New Wave" of experimental writing. According to Diane Zigo and Michael Moore, Dorman was part of a group of women writers (including writers such as C. J. Cherryh, C.J. Cherryh, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Judith Merrill, Joanna Russ, and Kate Wilhelm, Kate Wilhem) who "emerged as groundbreaking and prolific writers" in the 1960 and 1970s writing feminist science fiction. Dorman appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 anthology ''Dangerous Visions'', with the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird," a story set in a post-apocalyptic future where cannibalism is accepted. In 1978, three of Dorman's short stories were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Obituary. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the ''World of Tiers'' (1965–93) and ''Riverworld'' (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family group of books. These tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' (1973) and '' Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life'' (1973) are early examples of literary mashup novel. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Pitkin Buck
Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 – December 4, 1980"Doris P(itkin) Buck." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 31 July 2011.) was an American science fiction author. Born in New York City, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920 and Columbia University with a master's degree in 1925. She was a stage actress before marrying Richard Buck. She taught English at Ohio State University and was a founding member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. She published numerous science fiction stories and poems, many of them in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. Buck started published at fifty-four with her first story, "Aunt Agatha" in the October 1952 ''Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.'' Her story "The Little Blue Weeds of Spring" from the June 1966 issue was a nominee on the first ballot for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story "Why They Mobbed the White House" appeared in Damon Knight's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gaughan
John Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan, pronounced like 'gone' (September 24, 1930 – July 21, 1985) was an American science fiction artist and illustrator who won the Hugo Award several times. Working primarily with Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books, and DAW Books from 1971, his simple linear style brought to life images of such works as Andre Norton's ''Witch World'' novels and E. E. Smith's ''Lensmen'' and ''Skylark'' novels (for which he did two related sets of Pyramid Books covers). His broad visual vocabulary enabled him to render the objects, spaceships and scenes in whatever was presented to him as they were described in the books and stories he illustrated. That was especially an accomplishment as many of these authors drew on their knowledge of esoteric subjects for their imagery. This ability made him very popular among people with an engineering background. During most of Ejler Jakobsson's tenure as editor of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' from 1969 to 1974, Gaughan did all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wilson (author)
Richard Wilson (23 September 1920 – 29 March 1987) was an American science fiction science fiction writer, writer and science fiction fandom, fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was married for a time to Leslie Perri, who had also been a Futurian. His books included the novels ''The Girls from Planet 5'' (1955); ''30-Day Wonder'' (1960); and ''And Then the Town Took Off'' (1960); and the collections ''Those Idiots from Earth'' (1957) and ''Time Out for Tomorrow'' (1962). His short stories included "The Eight Billion" (nominated for a Nebula Award as Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Best Short Story in 1965); "Mother to the World" (nominated for the Hugo Award, Hugo for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Best Novelette in 1969 and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Nebula in 1968); and "The Story Writer" (nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1979). Wilson also worked in the public relations field as director of the Syracuse University News Bureau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Science Fiction
''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made ''Galaxy'' the leading science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology. Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman", later expanded as ''Fahrenheit 451''; Robert A. Heinlein's ''The Puppet Masters''; and Alfred Bester's ''The Demolished Man''. In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer. By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production. When Gold's health worsened, Pohl took over as editor, starting officially at the end of 1961, though he had been doing the majority of the production work for some time. Under Pohl ''Gala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian W
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan (given name), Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish language, Irish and Breton language, Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan language, Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Celtic languages, Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". For example, the element ''bre'' means "hill"; which could be transferred to mean "eminence" or "exalted one". The name is quite popular in Ireland, on account of Brian Boru, a 10th-century High King of Ireland. The name was also quite popular in East Anglia during the Middle Ages. This is because the name was introduced to England by Bretons following the Norman Conquest. Bretons also settled in Ireland along with the Normans in the 12th century, and 'their' name was mingled with the 'Irish' version. Also, in the north-west of England, the 'Irish' name was introduced by Scandinavian settlers from Ireland. Within the Gaelic speaking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Reed
Kit Reed, born Lillian Hyde Craig or Lil(l)ian Craig Reed (June 7, 1932 – September 24, 2017), was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig. Biography Reed was born Lillian Hyde Craig on June 7, 1932, in San Diego, California. She was a daughter of schoolteacher Lillian Hyde and US Naval officer John R. Craig. She was nicknamed "Kitten" at an early age and later legally changed her name to Kit Reed. Her father would command the submarine USS ''Grampus'' (SS-207), which was lost with all hands early in 1943, probably sunk by the Japanese. By age 12, she had written a series of books about a stand-up bunny rabbit. At the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), nun A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Latham
Charles Philip Latham (17 January 1929 – 20 June 2020) was a British television actor. He was educated at Felsted School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1951. In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead (played by Geoffrey Keen) in the BBC series ''The Troubleshooters'' (1965–72). Other credits ''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1956), ''Paul of Tarsus'', ''Danger Man'' (1960–1962), ''Maigret'', ''The Treasure Seekers'', '' The Avengers'', '' Love Story'', '' Undermind'', ''UFO'', ''The Saint'', ''Sergeant Cork'', ''Justice'', ''The Cedar Tree'', ''Killers'', ''Hammer House of Horror'', '' The Professionals'', '' No. 10'', and ''Nanny''. One of his horror film roles was as Dracula's sinister servant Klove in Hammer's 1966 film '' Dracula, Prince of Darkness'', and he had previously worked for Hammer in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McKenna
Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel, ''The Sand Pebbles'' which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a Yangtze Patrol, gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze, Yangtze River in 1925. Biography Early life McKenna was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, on May 9, 1913. Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S. Navy in 1931 at the age of 18. He served for 22 years, including 10 years of active sea duty. He served in World War II and the Korean War. He retired as a Chief Petty Officer, Chief Machinist's Mate. Because of the benefits of the GI Bill, McKenna was able to attend college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he studied creative writing. He also married a librarian, Eva, whom he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby, You Were Great
"Baby, You Were Great" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Kate Wilhelm. It was first published in ''Orbit 2''. Damon Knight — Wilhelm's husband — stated that "Baby, You Were Great" was inspired by his 1964 story, "Semper Fi", "with whose point of view Wilhelm disagreed", and that it is "in a sense, the same story s "Semper Fi", butwith an entirely different plot, setting, and cast of characters."introduction to "Baby, You Were Great" by , in "Best stories from Orbit, Volumes 1-10"; published 1975; via |
