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Richard Wilson

Lifespan
1920 – 1987
Nationality
American
Active
1942 – 1960
Works held
14

Richard Wilson (1920–1987) was a member of the legendary Futurians and a witty, humane short-story writer, ‘Mother to the World’ won the 1968 Nebula, and ‘The Eight Billion’ and ‘The Story Writer’ were award finalists too. As director of the Syracuse University News Bureau he built its great science-fiction manuscript archive, persuading Pohl, Niven, Clement and many others to donate their papers.

The works

  1. 1960
    Cover of 30-day wonder 30-day wonder Cover of And Then the Town Took Off And Then the Town Took Off
  2. 1959
    Cover of Traveling Companion Wanted Traveling Companion Wanted
  3. 1957
    Cover of Deny the Slake Deny the Slake Cover of The enemy The enemy
  4. 1956
    Cover of Course of Empire Course of Empire Cover of The Big Fix! The Big Fix! Cover of The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn Cover of The Sons of Japheth The Sons of Japheth
  5. 1955
    Cover of Double Take Double Take
  6. 1954
    Cover of Back to Julie Back to Julie
  7. 1953
    Cover of The Inhabited The Inhabited
  8. 1951
    Cover of Dateline: Mars Dateline: Mars
  9. 1942
    Cover of The Man From Siykul The Man From Siykul

Wrote across

1940s1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaFirst ContactTime TravelColonizationMilitary SFPost-ApocalypticPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Alfred CoppelGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondRandall GarrettRobert Moore Williams

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettGeorge O. SmithStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterBryce WaltonNelson S. BondH. Beam PiperMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseFritz Leiber

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