Everett B. Cole

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Everett Bush Cole (born April 17, 1910 in Jamestown , New York ; died August 21, 2001 in Texas ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Cole was the son of Alice Grace and John William Cole. He became a professional soldier in the US Army , fought on the 1944 Normandy Landing on Omaha Beach and in the Pacific during World War II . After the war he was stationed as a maintenance officer in Fort Douglas , Utah . In 1960 he took his leave, studied mathematics and physics and graduated with a BS with distinction in 1964 . Then taught Cole until his retirement in the mid-1970s mathematics, physics and chemistry at the high school in Yorktown , Texas.

Cole's first SF story Philosophical Corps appeared in 1951 in the SF magazine Astounding Science Fiction as a series, which was followed by three more stories by 1970. The stories in the Philosophical Corps series were published in 1961 as a fix-up by Gnome Press . In 1959, Astounding 's novel The Best Made Plans was first printed, which was also published in book form in 2008 and 2016. In addition to his SF works, Cole was the author of several local history books on Texas.

Cole was married to Joy Marie Waddell and had three children with her. He died in 2001 in Texas in a car accident on the way between Yorktown and Victoria . He and his wife, who died in 1971, are buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio .

bibliography

Philosophical Corps (short stories)
  • Philosophical Corps (in: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1951 )
  • These Shall Not Be Lost (in: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1953 )
  • Fighting Philosopher (in: Astounding Science Fiction, April 1954 )
    • German: Verbotene Welten. Translated by Bodo Baumann. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 4. Ullstein 2000 # 4 (2791), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02791-1 .
  • The Players (short novel in: Astounding Science Fiction, April 1955 )
  • The Philosophical Corps ( fix-up novel, 1961)
  • Here, There Be Witches (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, April 1970 )
Novels
  • The Best Made Plans (2 parts in: Astounding Science Fiction, November 1959  ff.)
Collections
  • The Best Made Plans and Other Science Fiction Stories (2011)
Short stories

1953:

  • Exile (1953)
    • German: The disturbance. Translated by Bodo Baumann. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): SF-Stories 3. Ullstein 2000 # 2782, 1970, ISBN 3-548-02782-2 .

1954:

  • The Deviant (in: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1954 )

1955:

  • Millennium (in: Astounding Science Fiction, May 1955 )
    • German: Power in the wrong hands. Translated by Heinz F. Kliem. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 9. Ullstein 2000 # 13 (2853), 1971, ISBN 3-548-02853-5 .
  • Final Weapon (in: Astounding Science Fiction, June 1955 )

1956:

  • Indirection (in: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1956 )
  • The Missionaries (in: Astounding Science Fiction, May 1956 )
    • German: The Missionaries. Translated by Heinz Nagel. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 16. Ullstein 2000 # 28 (2899), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02899-3 .

1960:

  • Alarm Clock (in: Astounding / Analog Science Fact & Fiction, September 1960 )

1961:

  • The Weakling (in: Analog Science Fact → Fiction, February 1961 )
Non-fiction
  • The History and Heritage of Goliad County (1983)
  • Yorktown, Texas: It's History, 1848-1989 (1989)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death of Everett Bush Cole, Sr. , accessed December 16, 2017
  2. ^ The Best Made Plans . Aegypan, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60664-773-8 . As a double edition together with Death Hunt by Robert E. Gilbert: Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Double Novel # E-9), 2016, ISBN 978-1-61287-312-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Everett B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cole, Everett Bush (full name); Cole, EB (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamestown , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2001
Place of death Texas