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Everett B. Cole

Lifespan
1910 – 2001
Nationality
American
Active
1955 – 1960
Works held
7

Everett B. Cole (1910–2001) was a professional soldier, a D-Day veteran of Omaha Beach, who wrote science fiction on the side, almost entirely for Astounding under John W. Campbell. His ‘Philosophical Corps’ stories, about a galactic peace-keeping service, were fixed up into a Gnome Press novel in 1962. A representative Campbell-era writer of competent problem-solving SF.

The works

  1. 1960
    Cover of Alarm Clock Alarm Clock
  2. 1959
    Cover of Indirection Indirection Cover of The Best Made Plans The Best Made Plans
  3. 1958
    Cover of The Weakling The Weakling
  4. 1957
    Cover of Final Weapon Final Weapon Cover of The Players The Players
  5. 1955
    Cover of Millennium Millennium

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaUtopiaMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonC. M. KornbluthH. G. WellsAlan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelAllen Kim LangArnold MarmorBen Bova

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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