FL Wallace

Floyd Lee Wallace (as an author usually FL Wallace , born on 16th February 1915 in skirt Iceland , Illinois , died on 26. November 2004 in Tustin , California ) was an American writer, best known as the author of science fiction - short stories and Crime novels .

Life

Wallace was a mechanical engineer by profession with several patents. He published his first science fiction story with Hideaway in 1951 in Astounding Science Fiction . The following short stories by Wallace appeared mainly in the SF magazine Galaxy , some of them translated into its German version Galaxis Science Fiction .

His only SF novel Address Centauri (1955) was translated into German as the target star Centauri . It is about a group of terminally ill, disabled, mutants and cyborgs who volunteer for a first interstellar flight to the nearest star Alpha Centauri . In addition to science fiction, Wallace wrote two detective novels and a number of detective stories.

Wallace died in 2004 at the age of 89. After Wallace had stopped writing science fiction in the early 1960s, his stories were largely forgotten until an e-book collection of his stories in the Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack series brought him some attention again in 2014 .

bibliography

novel

• Address: Centauri (1955)
  • German: Zielstern Centauri. Translated by Lothar Heinecke . Moewig ( Terra # 145), 1960. Also as: Target star Centauri. Translated by Martin Eisele . Moewig TB # 3732, 1987, ISBN 3-8118-3732-X .
• Three Times a Victim (1957)
• Wired for Scandal (1959)

collection

• The Eleventh Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2014)

Short stories

• Hideaway (1951)
• Accidental Flight (1952)
• Delay in Transit (1952)
• Student Body (1953)
  • German: Weird Metamorphosis. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction, # 8. Moewig, 1958.
• Worlds in Balance (1953)
• Tangle Hold (1953)
  • German: Mann im Netz. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction, # 13. Moewig, 1959.
• The Music Master (1953)
• Seasoned Traveler (1953)
• Forget Me Nearly (1954)
• The Deadly Ones (1954)
• The Impossible Voyage Home (1954)
• The Man Who Was Six (1954)
• Simple Psiman (1954)
• Big Ancestor (1954)
  • German: legend. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction, # 5. Moewig, 1958. Also as: genealogy . Translated by Heinz Nagel. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 16. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 28 (2899)), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02899-3 . Also as: The great ancestor. Translated by Heinz Nagel. In: Wolfgang Jeschke , Brian W. Aldiss (eds.): Titan 21. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4036), 1983.
• End as a World (1955)
• Bolden's Pets (1955)
• The Assistant Self (1956)
• Mezzerow Loves Company (1956)
• A Little Thing for the House (1956)
• Queen of Clothes (1957)
• The Nevada Virus (1957)
• Growing Season (1959)
• Second Landing (1960)
• Private Space (1961)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 439.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1019.
• John Clute : Wallace, F L. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 12, 2018.
• Mike Ashley : Wallace, F (loyd) L . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 494.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 443.
• Martin H. Greenberg : Wallace, F (loyd) L . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 840 f.

Web links

• FL Wallace in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• FL Wallace in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by Wallace, FL (Floyd L.) in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
• Works by and about FL Wallace at Open Library
• FL Wallace in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)