Dean McLaughlin

Dean Benjamin McLaughlin, Jr. (born July 22, 1931 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

McLaughlin is the son of astronomer Dean Benjamin McLaughlin and Laura McLaughlin, née Hill. He studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1953 .

His first SF story For Those Who Follow After appeared in Astounding in 1951 . In the meantime he has written around three dozen short stories and 4 novels, one of which ( Im Schatten der Venus , 1965) has also been translated into German. A topic he has dealt with several times is the conflict between the mostly libertarian individual and an authoritarian state power. With the stories Dawn (1981), Ode to Joy (1991) and Tenbrook of Mars (2008) published in the SF magazine Analog , he was each winner in the Analog Readers Poll of the following year.

bibliography

Probability Zero (short story series)

• The Cosmic Implications of Your Mailing Label (1990)
• On Secret Wings (1992)
• Always, There's Somebody Doesn't Get the Word (1996)
• Mary Had a Little ... (1998)

Novels

• Dome World (1962)
• The Fury From Earth (1963)
  • English: In the shadow of Venus. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 051, 1965.
• The Man Who Wanted Stars (1965)
• Dawn (1981)

Collections

• Hawk Among the Sparrows: Three Science Fiction Novellas (1976)

Short stories

• For Those Who Follow After (1951)
  • German: In the vault of eternity. In: Leon E. Stover, Harry Harrison (Eds.): Anthropofiction. Fischer paperback (Fischer Orbit # 21), 1974, ISBN 3-436-01676-4 .
• The Evidence At Hand (1952)
• See No Evil (1953)
• The Last Thousand Miles (1956)
• Welcome Home (1957)
• Hands of Steel (1958)
• The Man on the Bottom (1958)
• Brink of Creation (1958)
• Interview with an Open Mind (1959)
• The Brotherhood of Keepers (1960)
• The Voyage Which Is Ended (1962)
• One Hundred Days from Home (1964)
  • English: Spaceship ahoy !. In: Charlotte Winheller (ed.): Error of the machines. Heyne (Heyne General Series # 299), 1964.
• The Permanent Implosion (1964)
• Hawk Among the Sparrows (1968)
  • English: A falcon among sparrows. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Planetoidenfänger. Lichtenberg (Science Fiction for Connoisseurs # 6), 1971, ISBN 3-7852-2006-5 .
• Touchstone (1972)
• Endorsement, Personal (1973)
• The Trouble With Project Slickenslide (1973)
  • German: The difficulties with project landslide. In: Wulf Bergner (Ed.): Insel der Krebse. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3470), 1975, ISBN 3-453-30373-3 .
• Promise Them Anything (1973)
• To Walk with Thunder (1973)
• West of Scranton and Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (1974)
  • German: Countertrades. In: Wulf Bergner (Ed.): City of Giants. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3435), 1975, ISBN 3-453-30325-3 .
• The Astronomical Hazards of the Tobacco Habit (1977)
• Omit Flowers (1977)
• Beachhead (1977)
• Long Shot (1979)
• The Eternal Juice Machine (1982)
• The Epsilon Probe (1989)
• Ode to Joy (1991)
• Mark on the World (1992)
• Tenbrook of Mars (2008)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 279.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 718.
• John Clute , David Langford : McLaughlin, Dean. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 254.
• Don D'Ammassa: McLaughlin, Dean (Benjamin, Jr.) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 548 f.
• Stephen H. Goldman: McLaughlin, Dean (Benjamin) . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 292.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 996.
• Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , p. 181.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 293.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dean McLaughlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dean McLaughlin in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Dean McLaughlin in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Dean McLaughlin at Open Library
• Dean McLaughlin in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Dean McLaughlin in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)