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Tom Godwin

Lifespan
1915 – 1980
Nationality
American
Active
1955 – 1962
Works held
8

Tom Godwin (1915–1980) is remembered above all for ‘The Cold Equations’ (1954), the merciless tale of a stowaway who must be jettisoned because the physics of a rescue flight allows no other outcome, endlessly anthologised, taught and argued over as the hard-SF story par excellence. Godwin wrote several novels and other stories, but nothing else cast so long a shadow.

The works

  1. 1962
    Cover of —And Devious the Line of Duty —And Devious the Line of Duty
  2. 1961
    Cover of The Helpful Hand of God The Helpful Hand of God
  3. 1959
    Cover of The Nothing Equation The Nothing Equation
  4. 1958
    Cover of Cry from a Far Planet Cry from a Far Planet Cover of Space Prison Space Prison
  5. 1957
    Cover of The Last Victory The Last Victory
  6. 1956
    Cover of Brain Teaser Brain Teaser
  7. 1955
    Cover of The Barbarians The Barbarians

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaFirst ContactSocial SFColonizationPsychic PowersMilitary SFHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelBryce WaltonCharles L. FontenayFrank M. RobinsonGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeH. Beam Piper

Contemporaries writing in the same era

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

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