Derek Ivor Colin Kapp (3 April 1928
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freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2018 – 3 August 2007), Known as Colin Kapp, was a British
science fiction author
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best known for his stories about the
Unorthodox Engineers.
As an electronic engineer, he began his career with
Mullard
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Electronics then specialised in
electroplating
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techniques, eventually becoming a freelance consultant engineer.
He was born in
Southwark, south London, 3 April 1928
to John L. F. Kapp and Annie M.A. (née Towner).
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Works
Cageworld series
# ''Search for the sun!'' (1982) (also published as ''Cageworld'')
# ''The Lost worlds of Cronus'' (1982)
# ''The Tyrant of Hades'' (1984)
# ''Star Search'' (1984)
Chaos series
* '' The Patterns of Chaos'' (1972)
* '' The Chaos Weapon'' (1977)
Standalone novels
* '' The Dark Mind'' (1964) (also published as ''Transfinite Man'')
* '' The Wizard of Anharitte'' (1973)
* ''The Survival Game'' (1976)
* '' Manalone'' (1977)
* ''The Ion War'' (1978)
* ''The Timewinders'' (1980)
Short stories
Unorthodox Engineers
*"The Railways Up on Cannis" (1959)
*"The Subways of Tazoo" (1964)
*"The Pen and the Dark" (1966)
*"Getaway from Getawehi" (1969)
*"The Black Hole of Negrav" (1975)
Collected in '' The Unorthodox Engineers'' (1979)
Other stories
*"Breaking Point" (1959)
*"Survival Problem" (1959)
*"Lambda I" (1962)
*"The Night-Flame" (1964)
*"Hunger Over Sweet Waters" (1965)
*"Ambassador to Verdammt" (1967)
*"The Imagination Trap" (1967)
*"The Cloudbuilders" (1968)
I Bring You Hands
(1968)
*" Gottlos" (1969), notable for having (along with Keith Laumer
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's Bolo series) inspired Steve Jackson's classic game of 21st century tank warfare Ogre
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Steve Jackson
*"The Teacher" (1969)
*"Letter from an Unknown Genius" (1971)
*"What the Thunder Said" (1972)
*"Which Way Do I Go For Jericho?" (1972)
*"The Old King's Answers" (1973)
*"Crimescan" (1973)
*"What The Thunder Said" (1973)
*"Mephisto and the Ion Explorer" (1974)
*"War of the Wastelife" (1974)
*"Cassius and the Mind-Jaunt" (1975)
*"Something in the City" (1984)
*"An Alternative to Salt" (1986)
References
External links
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Bibliography
kept by Jarl Totland
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at SciFan
1929 births
2007 deaths
British science fiction writers
British short story writers
British male novelists
British male short story writers
20th-century British novelists
20th-century British short story writers
20th-century British male writers
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