Theodore Rose Cogswell (March 10, 1918 – February 3, 1987) was an American science fiction author.

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During the Spanish Civil War, Cogswell served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His earliest work to be published in a genre magazine, the

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The Spectre General "The Specter General" is a science fiction short story by American writer Theodore Cogswell, his first published work. It was initially published in the June 1952 issue of ''Astounding'' magazine. It was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of Amer ...

" in '' Astounding'' (June 1952)., was a humorous story concerning the long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines of a Galactic empire. It was selected as one of the genre's best novellas by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America and reprinted in '' The Science Fiction Hall of Fame''. Cogswell authored nearly 40 science fiction stories, most of them humorous, and co-authored '' Spock, Messiah!'', one of the earliest

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for pros", ''Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies''. A anthology of elections from ''PITCS'' was published by NESFA Press in 1993. Here, writers and editors discussed their own, and other's, works.

Bibliography

Novels

*'' Spock, Messiah!'' (1976) (''

'' tie-in novel co-authored

Charles A. Spano, Jr. Charles A. Spano Jr. (born 1948), sometimes bylined without his middle initial, is an American writer who co-wrote one of the first original novels based on the universe of the ''Star Trek'' television series. ''Spock, Messiah!'', co-authored ...

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Collections

*''The Wall Around the World'' (1962) (including the title story) *''The Third Eye'' (1968)

Other works

*"The Friggin Falcon" (1966) (poem) *''PITCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies'' (1993, editor)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cogswell, Theodore R. 1918 births 1987 deaths American science fiction writers Abraham Lincoln Brigade members 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers