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Michael Shaara

Lifespan
1928 – 1988
Nationality
American
Active
1952 – 1959
Works held
9

Michael Shaara (1928–1988) is best remembered for The Killer Angels, the Gettysburg novel that won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize and became the film Gettysburg. Before that, he was a busy science-fiction short-story writer in the 1950s, publishing in Galaxy, Astounding and others. His clean, humane storytelling was evident from those early genre pieces onward.

The works

  1. 1959
    Cover of Citizen Jell Citizen Jell
  2. 1956
    Cover of Conquest Over Time Conquest Over Time Cover of Man of Distinction Man of Distinction
  3. 1954
    Cover of The Sling and the Stone The Sling and the Stone Cover of The Vanisher The Vanisher Cover of Wainer Wainer
  4. 1953
    Cover of Soldier Boy Soldier Boy Cover of The Book The Book
  5. 1952
    Cover of Orphans of the Void Orphans of the Void

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaFirst ContactMilitary SFTime TravelPost-ApocalypticPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Alfred CoppelEdmond HamiltonGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondNoel M. Loomis

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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