Alexander Malec

Alexander B. Malec (born May 20, 1929 in Detroit , Michigan ; died January 20, 2014 in Niagara Falls , New York ) was an American science fiction writer. He wrote a dozen short stories that were collected and published by Doubleday in 1967 . The collection was translated into German under the title Sperrzone Mond . The first story Project Inhumane published by him in 1964 was included by Judith Merril in the anthology 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best SF in 1966.

bibliography

collection

• Extrapolasis (1967)
  • German: Sperrzone Mond. Translated by Norbert Wölfl. Goldmann's Space Pocket Books # 121, 1970. 2nd edition: 1974, ISBN 3-442-23121-3 .

Short stories

• Project Inhumane (1964)
• Matayama (1966)
• 10:01 AM (1966)
• Diehl (1967)
• Landmark (1967)
• Monsignor Primo Macinno (1967)
• Once Was (1967)
• Opaxtl (1967) also appeared as:
  • German: Opaxtl. Translated by Norbert Wölfl. In: Michael Görden (Ed.): The future is spinning. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23499, 1987, ISBN 3-442-23499-9 .
• Proof Positive (1967)
• Remote Incident (1967)
• Thing-Thing (1967)
• ... To Relieve the Sanity (1967)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 282.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 695.
• John Clute : Malec, Alexander. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 296.

Web links

• Alexander Malec in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Alexander Malec at Open Library
• Alexander B. Malec , obituary in the Niagara Gazette, January 31, 2014, accessed May 18, 2018