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Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is a
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from
Eugene, Oregon, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the ''
Star Trek'' series. He is a member of the
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writers' group and also writes under the pen name "Ryan Hughes."
Writing career
His novels include ''
Frame of Reference'' (1987), ''
Abandon in Place'' (2000), ''
The Getaway Special'' (2001), ''
Paradise Passed'' (2004), and ''
Anywhere but Here'' (2005). His work has been compiled in the collections, ''Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume One'' (1993), ''Singing in the Rain, The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume Two'' (1998), and ''Twenty Questions'' (2003). He contributed to ''Isaac Asimov's Robot City'' series with the books ''Alliance'' and ''Humanity'' (both in 1990). His work can also be found in numerous anthologies, such as ''
Quest to Riverworld'' (1993) and ''
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina'' (1995).
As of November 2011, Oltion became the most published fiction author in the history of
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magazine, with 84 stories. He has since attained over 98 as of March 2021.
Oltion has also written several ''
Star Trek'' novels, including
''Twilight's End'' (1995), ''Mudd in your Eye'' (1996), and the ''New Earth'' novel, ''
The Flaming Arrow'' (2000), the latter written in collaboration with his wife, Kathy. He also wrote a novel in ''Star Treks ''Captain's Table'' series, ''Where Sea Meets Sky'' (1998).
Astronomy
![Trackball Telescope](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Trackball_Telescope.jpg)
Oltion is the designer of the trackball telescope, a light weight
equatorial mounting system with an
electromechanical
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star tracking drive. He publicly described the trackball in the August 2006 issue of ''
Sky and Telescope
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*current events in astronomy and space exploration;
*events in the amateur astronomy community;
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'' magazine, and on his website. He placed the patent-able portions of his design in the
public domain
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, making them more easily accessible to other telescope makers.
In June 2016 Oltion became a contributing editor at ''
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'' magazine, writing the monthly ''Astronomer's Workbench'' column.
Awards
Oltion won the 1998
Nebula Award for Best Novella for "Abandon in Place". He was also nominated for the Nebula Award two other times, for his 1993 novella "Contact", and his 2000 novella, "The Astronaut from Wyoming".
He won the 2006 Endeavor Award for best novel by a Northwest Author ("Anywhere But Here").
He was also nominated twice for the
Hugo Awards
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for Best Novella, first for "Abandon in Place" in 1997, and then for "The Astronaut from Wyoming" in 2000, but did not win either time.
In 2007, Oltion and
Adam-Troy Castro
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won the
Seiun Award
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for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming."
Bibliography
Novels
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[Sequel to ''The getaway special''.]
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* Where Sea Meets Sky (1998)
* The Flaming Arrow (with Kathy Oltion, 2000)
;Robots City
* Alliance (
Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens
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No. 4, 1990)
* Humanity (
Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens
Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's Robot series (Asimov), ''Robot'' series. Each volume is complete in itself, but they form a continuing series. The series f ...
No. 6, 1990
Short fiction
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* Love Songs of a Mad Scientist (1993)
* Singing in the Rain (1998)
* With Stars in their Eyes (with
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, 2003)
* Twenty Questions (2003)
;Short stories
* "Abridged edition" ''
F&SF
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'' 87/1
18(Jul 1994)
* "Away in a manger" ''
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'' 115/15 (mid-Dec 1995)
* "Biosphere" ''
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'' 96/6
74(Jun 1999)
* "Course changes" ''
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'' 113/11 (Sep 1993)
* "Crackers" ''
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'' 127/4 (Apr 2007)
* "Dedication" ''
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'' 113/12 (Oct 1993)
* "Deus X" with
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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'' 93/4-5
56(Oct/Nov 1997)
* "The difference between science fiction and fantasy: a mathematical analysis" ''
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'' 92/3
49(Mar 1997)
* "Dutchman's gold" with Kent Patterson ''
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'' 89/3
32(Sep 1995)
* "Fermat's lost theorem" ''
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'' 114/15 (mid-Dec 1994)
* "The firefly farce" ''
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'' 114/6 (May 1994): 75–81
* "The grass is always greener" ''
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'' 84/2
01(Feb 1993)
* "The great Martian pyramid hoax" ''
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'' 88/1
24(Jan 1995)
* "Holiday spirits" ''
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'' 117/1 (Jan 1997)
* "If only we knew" ''
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'' 127/1&2 (Jan/Feb 2007)
* "In the autumn of the Empire" ''
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'' 129/10 (Oct 2009)
* "The jolly old boyfriend" ''
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'' 129/12 (Dec 2009)
* "A jug of wine and thou" ''
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'' 129/4 (Apr 2009)
* "The love song of Laura Morrison" ''
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''
* "The miracle" ''
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'' 95/6
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* "A new generation" ''
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'' 128/1&2 (Jan/Feb 2008)
* "Outside the box" ''
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'' 128/7&8 (Jul–Aug 2008
* "The Pandora probe" ''
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'' 114/14 (Dec 1994)
* "The plight before Christmas" ''
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'' 90/1
36(Jan 1996)
* "Salvation" ''
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'' 127/12 (Dec 2007)
* "Schrödinger's kiln" ''
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'' 115/3 (Feb 1995)
* "The Seeds of Time" ''Bones of the World: Tales from Time's End'' (2001)
* "Space aliens taught my dog to knit" ''
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'' 130/6 (Jun 2010) (with Elton Elliott)
* "There goes the neighbourhood" ''
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'' 91/2
43(Aug 1996)
* "Uncertainty" ''
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'' 89/6
35(Dec 1995)
* "Waterworld" with Lee Goodloe ''
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'' 114/4 (Mar 1994)
* "When we were fab" ''
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'' 130/4 (Apr 2010)
* "Much Ado About Nothing" ''
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'' 102/12 (Nov 1982)
* "If a Tree Doesn't Fall" ''
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'' 141/3-4 (Mar/Apr 2021)
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Notes
External links
Jerry Oltion's home page
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1957 births
Living people
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