Cleve Cartmill

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Cleve Cartmill (born June 21, 1908 in Platteville , Wisconsin ; died February 11, 1964 in Costa Mesa , Orange County , California ) was an American science fiction and horror story writer and journalist .

Life

Born in Wisconsin in 1908, Cartmill attended various schools in the Midwest. In 1927 he settled in California and worked as an accountant, radio station and journalist.

Cartmill published his first short story in the magazine Unknown Fantasy Fiction published by John W. Campbell in February 1941. The total of more than 40 stories published by 1956 included a cycle of SF stories that appeared in the volume The Space Scavengers and below The title Raum-Geier was translated into German. Most of his stories have a strong influence of fantasy and horror elements.

Cartmill is still known today for the SF story Deadline , published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1944 , which deals with an atomic bomb based on uranium-235 . Some of the details of the story gave the American security authorities the impression that information from the then top-secret Manhattan Project was being made public, whereupon the FBI started an investigation into which Cartmill, the editor Campbell and other SF authors from their environment were involved such as Robert A. Heinlein , Isaac Asimov , Murray Leinster, and L. Sprague de Camp were included.

Cartmill most recently lived in Costa Mesa , California. He is buried in Westminster Memorial Park Cemetery in Westminster , Orange County.

bibliography

Space Salvage (short story series)
  • High Jack and Dame (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1949 )
  • Salvage (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949 )
    • English: The wreck in space. Translated by Clark Darlton . In: Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 3. Pabel, 1956.
  • Thicker Than Water (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1949 )
  • Dead Run (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950 )
  • Little Joe (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950 )
  • No Hiding Place (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1950 )
  • The Space Scavengers (1975, collection)
    • German: Raum-Geier. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei-Lübbe SF Action # 21107, 1978, ISBN 3-404-01061-2 .
collection
  • The Collected Fantastic Fiction of Cleve Cartmill 1: Prelude to Armageddon (2003)
Short stories

1941:

  • Oscar (in: Unknown Fantasy Fiction, February 1941 )
  • The Shape of Desire (in: Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June 1941 )
  • No News Today (in: Unknown Worlds, October 1941 )
    • English: The wall of darkness. In: Peter Haining (Ed.): 15 Satan Stories. Heyne Anthologie # 47, 1975, ISBN 3-453-45020-5 .
  • Bit of Tapestry (in: Unknown Worlds, December 1941 )
    • German: Invisible threads. Translated by Leni Sobez. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 536), 1967.

1942:

  • Prelude to Armageddon (in: Unknown Worlds, April 1942 )
  • The Bargain (in: Unknown Worlds, August 1942 )
    • German: business with death. Translated by Udo H. Schwager. In: Donald R. Bensen (Ed.): Ullstein Kriminalmagazin # 11. Ullstein Books # 1183, 1968.
  • The Link (in: Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1942 )
  • With Flaming Swords (in: Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1942 )
  • Overthrow (in: Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1942 )
  • Some Day We'll Find You (in: Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1942 )

1943:

  • Guardian (in: Unknown Worlds, February 1943 )
  • No Graven Image (in: Unknown Worlds, February 1943 )
  • The Persecutors (in: Super Science Stories, February 1943 )
  • Forever Tomorrow (in: Astonishing Stories, April 1943 )
  • Murderer's Apprentice (in: Science Fiction Stories, April 1943 )
  • The Darker Light (in: Super Science Stories, May 1943 )
  • Let's Disappear (in: Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 )
  • Wheesht! (in: Unknown Worlds, June 1943 )
  • Hell Hath Fury (in: Unknown Worlds, August 1943 )
  • Visiting Yokel (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1943 )
  • Clean-Up (in: Unknown Worlds, October 1943 )

1944:

  • Deadline (in: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944 )
  • Cabal (in: Super Science Stories (Canadian), April 1944 )

1949:

  • Bells on His Toes (in: The Magazine of Fantasy, Fall 1949 )

1950:

  • Number Nine (in: Astounding Science Fiction, February 1950 )
    • German: number nine. Translated by Clark Darlton . In: Clark Darlton (ed.): Utopia Magazine 6. Pabel Utopia Magazine # 6, 1956.
  • Punching Pillows (in: Astounding Science Fiction, June 1950 )
  • Fly Down Death (in: Weird Tales, July 1950 )
  • Huge Beast (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950 )
  • Captain Famine (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1950 )

1951:

  • The Green Cat (in: Worlds Beyond, January 1951 )
  • At Your Service (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1951 )
  • You Can't Say That (1951, in: Raymond J. Healy (Ed.): New Tales of Space and Time )

1952:

  • Nor Iron Bars (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1952 ; with Dan Kelly)

1953:

  • My Lady Smiles (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1953 )

1955:

  • Age Cannot Wither (1955, in: Beyond Fantasy Fiction, # 10 1954 )
  • Youth, Anybody? (in: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1955 )

2003:

  • Love After Doomsday (2003, in: Cleve Cartmill: Prelude to Armageddon )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Cleve Cartmill Controversy - Did Story "Deadline" Leak Atomic Bomb Secrets? , Article on Futures Past from January 15, 2014, accessed December 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Cleve E. Cartmill on findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Cartmill, Cleve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cartmill, Cleve E. (full name); Corbin, Michael (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and horror writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Platteville , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1964
Place of death Costa Mesa , Orange County , California