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John J. McGuire

Lifespan
1917 – 1981
Nationality
American
Active
1953 – 1963
Works held
6

John J. McGuire (1917–1981), born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is remembered chiefly for co-writing several works with H. Beam Piper, the dystopian Crisis in 2140 (‘Null-ABC’) and the comic Western-in-space A Planet for Texans (‘Lone Star Planet’) among them. He published a handful of solo stories in the late 1950s and early 60s. A capable partner to a more famous collaborator.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of Take the Reason Prisoner Take the Reason Prisoner
  2. 1959
    Cover of Hunter Patrol Hunter Patrol
  3. 1958
    Cover of Lone Star Planet Lone Star Planet
  4. 1954
    Cover of The Return The Return Cover of The Return The Return
  5. 1953
    Cover of Null-ABC Null-ABC

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFDystopiaPost-ApocalypticTime TravelColonizationMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

George O. SmithH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMack ReynoldsMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondRandall GarrettRobert Silverberg

Contemporaries writing in the same era

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

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