Frank Riley

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Frank Riley , actually Frank Wilbert Rhylick , (born June 8, 1915 in Hibbing , Minnesota , † April 24, 1996 in Manhattan Beach , California ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

The author worked for the New York Daily News in the 1930s and served in the US Marines during World War II. He then moved to California and worked as a freelance writer, for example as a travel reporter for the LA Times . Frank Riley published very few works between 1953 and 1958. He published several short stories in the magazine If : Cyber ​​and Justice , Bright Islands (both 1955), The Executioner , Project Hi-Psi (both 1956), Abbr. , Eddie (both 1957) and A Question of Identity (1958).

Only the novel Computer der Immortlichkeit , written together with Mark Clifton , is available in German translation , the original of which They'd rather be right was published as a series from August to November 1954 in the SF magazine Astounding Science-Fiction and received the Hugo Award in 1955 .

Awards

bibliography

novel
  • They'd Rather Be Right (1954, with Mark Clifton, also as The Forever Machine , 1955)
  • German: Computer of Immortality. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 119), 1967.
Short stories
  • The Cyber ​​and Justice Holmes (1955)
  • Bright Islands (1955)
  • The Executioner (1956)
  • Project Hi-Psi (1956)
  • Cancel (1957)
  • Eddie (1957)
  • A Question of Identity (1958)
  • Wonder Cold (1962)
  • German: Wunderkälte. In: Science Fiction: Five Stories = Science Fiction: Five Stories. dtv bilingual, 1976, ISBN 3-423-09061-8 .
Non-fiction
  • Dixie Demagogues (1939)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Riley, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhylick, Frank Wilbert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hibbing , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1996
Place of death Manhattan Beach , California