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Mark Clifton

Lifespan
1906 – 1963
Nationality
American
Active
1952 – 1962
Works held
7

Mark Clifton (1906–1963) brought a psychologist’s eye to science fiction, beginning with the widely reprinted ‘What Have I Done?’ (1952). His ‘Bossy’ stories about a super-intelligent computer culminated in They’d Rather Be Right (with Frank Riley), which won the 1955 Hugo for Best Novel. His work is preoccupied with the gulf between genius and the fearful, ordinary world around it.

The works

  1. 1962
    Cover of Hang head, vandal Hang head, vandal
  2. 1960
    Cover of Eight Keys to Eden Eight Keys to Eden
  3. 1958
    Cover of Do Unto Others Do Unto Others
  4. 1955
    Cover of A Woman's Place A Woman's Place Cover of Sense from Thought Divide Sense from Thought Divide
  5. 1953
    Cover of The Kenzie Report The Kenzie Report
  6. 1952
    Cover of Star, Bright Star, Bright

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFFirst ContactColonizationPsychic PowersSpace Opera

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelBasil WellsBryce WaltonCharles L. FontenayCharles V. De VetChester S. GeierDamon Knight

Contemporaries writing in the same era

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

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