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Katherine MacLean

Lifespan
1925 – 2019
Nationality
American
Active
1950 – 1953
Works held
7

Katherine MacLean (1925–2019) was one of the most intellectually rigorous SF writers of the 1950s, bringing real biology, psychology and sociology into stories like ‘Contagion’ and ‘The Snowball Effect’. ‘The Missing Man’ won the 1971 Nebula. Admired by peers for the depth of her ideas, she was named an Author Emeritus by the SFWA, a quietly foundational figure among the genre’s women.

The works

  1. 1953
    Cover of Games Games Cover of The Carnivore The Carnivore Cover of The Natives The Natives
  2. 1952
    Cover of The Man Who Staked the Stars The Man Who Staked the Stars Cover of The Snowball Effect The Snowball Effect
  3. 1951
    Cover of Pictures Don't Lie Pictures Don't Lie
  4. 1950
    Cover of Contagion Contagion

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

First ContactSocial SFColonizationSpace OperaDystopiaPost-ApocalypticPsychic PowersHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMurray LeinsterNelson S. Bond

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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