HB Fyfe
Horace Bowne Fyfe Jr. (born September 30, 1918 in Jersey City , New Jersey ; died November 17, 1997 in Teaneck , New Jersey) was an American science fiction writer.
Life
Fyfe was the son of Horace Bowne Fyfe and Lillian, nee Lewis. He first studied at the George Stevens Academy in Maine . During World War II he served as an infantryman in France and Germany and was awarded the Bronze Star . After the war he continued his studies and graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in New York in 1950 . In 1946 he married Adeline Marie Dougherty. After her death in 1970 he married Sonia V. Benedict in 1975.
He had published his first SF short stories as early as 1940, but only after the war and university did he begin to write on a larger scale. In total, he published nearly 60 short stories, including the Bureau of Slick Tricks series , in which the earth is the hub of interstellar trade. The BST - which officially stands for Bureau of Special Trading - has the task of making sure that it stays that way through all possible machinations. The episode novel D-99 has a similar theme . The Department 99 has the task of helping, earthlings out of difficult situations into which they have fallen on other planets. As of 2010, several collections of his short stories appeared.
The spelling of his middle name changes. In addition to “Bowne”, “Browne” and “Brown” appear (also in book titles). Here the classification of the Library of Congress as "Fyfe, HB (Horace Bowne)" was adopted.
bibliography
- novel
- D-99. 1962.
- Collections
- HB Fyfe Resurrected: The Works of Horace Brown Fyfe. 2010.
- Anthology of Sci-Fi V7: The Pulp Writers: Horace Brown Fyfe. 2013.
- The Seventh Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack. 2014.
- The 15th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack: HB Fyfe. Volume 2, 2015.
- The 24th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack: HB Fyfe. Volume 3, 2015.
- Bureau of Slick Tricks Series (Short Stories)
- 1 Bureau of Slick Tricks. 1948.
- 2 Special Jobbery. 1949.
- 3 Compromise. 1950.
- 4 Implode and Peddle. 1951.
- 5 bluff-stained transaction. 1952.
- Short stories
- Locked out. 1940.
- Hold That Comet! 1940. (with FH Hauser)
- Sinecure 6. 1947.
- Conformity expected. 1950.
- Spy Scare. 1950.
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In Value Deceived. 1950.
- German: two kinds of value. In: Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 7, 1957.
- The Well-Oiled Machine. 1950.
- Afterthought. 1951.
- Experimentum Crucis. 1951. (as Andrew MacDuff)
- Protected Species. 1951.
- The Envoy, Her. 1951.
- Key decision. 1951.
- Open invitation. 1951.
- Temporary keeper. 1951.
- This World Must Die! 1951.
- Yes sir! 1951.
- Thinking machine. 1951.
- Perseveration. 1952.
- Calling World-4 of Kithgol! 1952.
- Time limit. 1952.
- Ransom. 1952.
- Star-linked. 1952.
- Incomplete data. 1952.
- Manners of the Age. 1952.
- Extra secret agent. 1952.
- Confidence. 1952.
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Let There Be Light. 1952.
- German: Let there be light. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 88. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31027, 1981, ISBN 3-548-31027-3 .
- Moonwalk. 1952.
- Knowledge is power. 1952.
- Almost passage. 1953.
- The Compleat Collector. 1953.
- Exile. 1953.
- Romance. 1953.
- Irresistible weapon. 1953.
- Koenigshaufen's Curve. 1953.
- Luna Escapade. 1953.
- Variant: Lunar Escapade. 1953.
- Variant: Luna Escapade. 1953.
- Welcome Strangers! 1954.
- The Shell Dome. 1955.
- The Night of No Moon. 1957.
- Fee of the Frontier. 1960.
- A Transmutation of Muddles. 1960.
- The wedge. 1960.
- Satellite system. 1960.
- The Furies of Zhahnoor. 1960.
- Round-and-round trip. 1960.
- The Outbreak of Peace. 1961.
- Flamedown. 1961.
- Tolliver's orbit. 1961.
- The Talkative Tree. 1962.
- Star Chamber. 1963.
- The Klygha. 1963.
- The Clutches of Ruin. 1965.
- The Old Shill Game. 1967.
- Routine report. 2015.
- Space-Conditioned. 2015.
- Afterglow. 2016. (with John Gregory Betancourt)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 164.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 464.
- John Clute , David Langford : XXX. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3. Edition. (Online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
- Don D'Ammassa: Fyfe, H (orace) B (owne). In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 298 f.
- 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. 906.
- Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , p. 101.
- Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , pp. 177 f.
Web links
- Works by Fyfe, HB in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
- HB Fyfe in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about HB Fyfe at Open Library
- HB Fyfe in Fantastic Fiction (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fyfe, HB |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fyfe, Horace Bowne Fyfe Jr. (full name); Fyfe, Horace Browne (alternative spelling); Fyfe, Horace Brown (alternative spelling); Fyfe, Horace B. (alternative spelling); MacDuff, Andrew (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , New Jersey |
DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1997 |
Place of death | Teaneck , New Jersey |