Dan Morgan (writer)

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Dan Morgan (born December 24, 1925 in Holbeach , Lincolnshire ; died November 4, 2011 ) was a British science fiction writer and jazz guitarist .

Life

Morgan was the son of the tailor Cecil Morgan and Lilian Kate, née Morley. He attended Spalding Grammar School in Spalding , Lincolnshire and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1947 to 1948 . Since 1958 he was the owner and manager of a men's fashion store.

In 1952 he published a first SF short story, Alien Analysis , in New Worlds magazine . By the late 1970s, a good dozen novels and over 40 short stories by Morgan had appeared. Particularly noteworthy are his Venturer-Twelve -Books, a space opera - trilogy that he and John Kippax, a musician colleagues wrote. Here a space corps deals with various threats to interstellar peace. Another cycle of novels, The Sixth Perception , which has also been translated into German, is dedicated to the psi phenomena that Morgan dealt with several times . A group of paranormal talent ("Esper", derived from ESP, abbreviation for Extrasensory Perception ), who help each other and support each other in the development of their skills, fights with various villains and against various psionic dangers.

None of Morgan's books was an absolute success, which Don D'Ammassa attributes to the fact that Morgan's subjects had already been dealt with many times before, be it the space opera, be it the field of psi phenomena , which has been plowed up since Gernsback's times. Thus, Morgan's books, although exciting and competently written, met with little echo and were soon forgotten. The media satire The Richest Corpse in Show Business (1966) falls out of the series of more conventional novels . Morgan himself noted that this, like no other of his books, aroused interest and commented. "Maybe I should have continued mining here," he said.

Morgan was also a professional jazz guitarist at times and wrote two textbooks on guitar playing.

Morgan was married twice and had a son from his first marriage (born 1951). In 2011 he died at the age of 85.

bibliography

The Sixth Perception (novel cycle)
  • 1 The New Minds (1967)
    • English: The Esper Laboratory. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 164), 1969.
  • 2 The Several Minds (1969)
    • English: Esper in action. Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch # 189), 1972.
  • 3 The Mind Trap (1970)
    • German: The Psi-Agents. Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch # 192), 1972.
  • 4 The Country of the Mind (1975)
    • German: Esper among us. Pabel (Terra Paperback # 336), 1981.
Venturer Twelve (novel cycle, with John Kippax)
  • 1 A Thunder of Stars (1968)
  • 2 Seed of Stars (1972)
  • 3 The Neutral Stars (1973)
Novels
  • Cee-Tee Man (1955)
    • German: AT force over Terra. Hönne / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Hönne Utopia top class), 1959. Also called: The Brainwashers. Moewig (Terra # 86), 1959.
  • The Uninhibited (1957, 1961)
    • German: Hetzjagd der Telepathen. Widukind / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Widukind Utopia top class), 1960.
  • The Richest Corpse in Show Business (1966)
  • Inside (1971)
    • English: experiment under the dome. Translated by Gudrun Faltermeier. Ullstein 2000 # 31013, 1980, ISBN 3-548-31013-3 .
  • The High Destiny (1973)
    • German: ruler over thirteen worlds. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31036, 1982, 3-548-31036-2.
  • The Concrete Horizon (1976)
Short stories
  • Alien Analysis (1952)
  • Home Is Tomorrow (1953)
  • Amateur Talent (1953)
  • Jerry Built (1954)
  • Psychic Twin (1954)
  • Alcoholic Ambassador (1954)
  • Forgive Them ... (1954)
  • Cleansing Fires (1954)
  • Trojan Hearse (1954, with John Kippax)
  • The Lesser Breed (1955)
  • Kwakiutl (1955)
  • Life Agency (1955)
  • Controlled Flight (1956)
  • The Earth Never Sets (1956)
  • The Little Fleet (1956)
  • The Way I Am (1956)
  • Wunkle (1956)
  • Beast of the Field (1956)
  • More Than Hormones (1956)
  • The Whole Armor (1956)
  • The Humanitarian (1957)
  • The Unwanted (1958)
  • The Star Game (1958)
  • The Hard Way (1958)
  • Insecurity Risk (1959)
  • Protected Planet (1959)
  • Drive Out of Mind (1960)
  • Stopover Earth (1961)
  • Father (1961)
  • Emreth (1965)
  • Parking Problem (1965)
  • Third Party (1965)
  • Story (1966)
  • Frozen Assets (1969)
  • Flanagan's Law (1970)
  • Scramble (1971)
  • Canary (1972)
  • The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (1974)
  • Young Tom (1976)
  • Love in Limbo (2003)
Non-fiction
  • Guitar (1965, 3rd edition 1985, also as Playing the Guitar , 1967)
  • Spanish Guitar (1982)
  • Beginning Windsurfing (1982)
  • You Can Play the Guitar (1983, with Nick Penny)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "Maybe I should have mined this vein further." Don D'Ammassa: Morgan, Dan . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 576.