Donald Malcolm (1930–2013) was a Scottish author of
science fiction
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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
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'', ''Nebula Science Fiction'', ''
Astounding Science Fiction
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'', the anthology series ''
New Writings in SF
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'', 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
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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
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, have been described as "routine."
Later in life, Malcolm published a few pictorial history books about the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire, where he lived.
Bibliography
Science fiction
Novels
*''The Iron Rain'' (1976)
*''The Unknown Shore'' (1976)
Short stories
*"Defence Mechanism" (1957)
The Long Ellipse (1958)
*"The House of Lights" (1958)
*"Lone Voyager" (1958)
*"The Stuff of Dreams" (1959)
*"Complex" (1959)
*"Almost Obsolete" (1959)
*"The Pathfinders" (1960)
*"The Winds of Truth" (1960)
*"Test Case" (1960)
*"The Other Face" (1961)
*"Yorick" (1962)
*"Twice Bitten" (1963)
*"Dilemma with Three Horns" (1964)
*"Beyond the Reach of Storms" (1964)
*"Potential" (1965)
*"First Dawn" (1965)
*"The Big Day" (1971)
*"A Strange and Terrible Sea" (1974)
*"The Enemy Within" (1975)
*"Between the Tides" (1976)
*"For Some Dark Purpose" (1989)
Nonfiction
Articles
*"A Tenth Planet?" (1955)
*"Is Bode's Law a Coincidence?" (1955)
*"Lunar Observatory" (1956)
*"Whose Moon?" (1956)
*"Halley - The Man and the Comet" (1957)
*"Satellites and the I.G.Y." (1957)
*"Moons of Jupiter" (1958)
*"First Breakthrough" (1958)
*"Who Rules in Space" (1958)
*"Fallacies in Science Fiction" (1963)
Reviews
*" 'The Deep Reaches of Space' by A. Bertram Chandler" (1964)
*" 'The View From the Stars' by Walter M. Miller" (1965)
*" 'Raiders from the Rings' by Alan E. Nourse" (1965)
Notes
General references
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1930 births
2013 deaths
Scottish science fiction writers
20th-century Scottish novelists
Scottish male novelists
20th-century British male writers
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