Alan Barclay

This article is about the British science fiction writer. For the Canadian science fiction author of the same name ( Schrödinger's Mousetrap , 1994) see Alan Barclay (Canada) .

Alan Barclay (actually George Barclay Tait ; born December 13, 1909 ; died February 1991 in Stockport , Cheshire ) was a British science fiction writer.

Tait was a civil engineer and served in the Royal Air Force during World War II . From 1951 he began to publish short stories, mainly in Science Fantasy and New Worlds . His first novel, Space Opera Of Earth and Fire (1974), a fix-up of previously published stories, was translated into German under the title Die Raumsoldaten .

bibliography

Novels

• Of Earth and Fire (1974)
  • German: The space soldiers. Translated by Horst Pukallus. Bastei-Lübbe SF # 21061, 1974, ISBN 3-404-04964-0 .
• The City and the Desert (1976)
• No Magic Carpet (1976)
• The Cruel Years of Winter (1978)
• The Guardian at Sunset (1979)

Short stories

1951:

• Welcome Stranger! (in: New Worlds, # 11 Autumn 1951 )

1952:

• Information (in: Astounding Science Fiction, February 1952 )
• Enemy in Their Midst (in: Science-Fantasy, v 2 # 5, Autumn 1952 )

1953:

• The Hard Way (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 21 June 1953 )

1954:

• The Lever and the Fulcrum (in: Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, # 44 April 1954 )
• Only an Echo (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 22 April 1954 )
• Walk into My Parlor (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 23 May 1954 )
• The Firebird (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 26 August 1954 )

1955:

• The Dragon (in: Science Fantasy, February 1955 )
• The Real McCoy (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 34 April 1955 )
• The Single Ship (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 39 September 1955 )
• Rock 83 (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 40 October 1955 )

1956:

• The Hot Potato (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 43 January 1956 )
• Louey (in: Science Fantasy, v 6 # 17, 1956 )
• The Refugee (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 48 June 1956 )
• The Thing in Common (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 50 August 1956 )
• The Neutral (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 53 November 1956 )
• The Executioner (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 54 December 1956 )

1957:

• A Jacko for McCoy (in: Saturn, March 1957 )
• Misfit (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 60 June 1957 )
• To Percy (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 65 November 1957 )

1959:

• The Silver Moons (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 82 April 1959 )
• Nearly Extinct (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 89 December 1959 )
• Who Was Here? (1959, in: Science Fantasy, # 38 December )

1961:

• The Scapegoat (1961, in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 105 April )
• Haircrack (1961, in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 106 May )

Non-fiction

• Interplanetary Navigation (in: New Worlds Science Fiction, # 67 January 1958 )
• The Bow (1960, in: Science Fiction Adventures, No. 17 )

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 30.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 203.
• John Clute : Barclay, Alan. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), April 4, 2017, accessed on November 6, 2017.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 417, sv Tait, George B.

Web links

• Alan Barclay in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Alan Barclay in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Alan Barclay in the Bibliography of German Science Fiction ( Books )
• Works by and about Alan Barclay at Open Library