Ian Wallace (writer)

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Ian Wallace (real name John Wallace Pritchard ; born December 4, 1912 in Chicago , Illinois ; died July 7, 1998 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) was an American science fiction writer and a psychologist and educator.

Life

Pritchard was the son of William Arthur Pritchard and Hallie, née Kohlhas. He attended school in Detroit, studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , where he made his bachelor's degree in English in 1934 . In 1939 he earned a master's degree in educational psychology . During the Second World War he worked as a clinical psychologist with the rank of captain in the US Army . From 1949 to 1951 he completed a graduate degree and received his doctorate in 1957 from Wayne University . After his first graduation in 1934, he joined the Detroit Board of Education) started working, where he worked in various positions and retired in 1974 as a department director. From 1955 until his retirement, he was also a lecturer in the philosophy of education at Wayne State University. Since his retirement he has devoted himself full-time to writing.

Pritchard published the novel Every Crazy Wind under his own name in 1952 . His first science fiction novel Croyd was published in 1967 (German as The Great Croyd ) and opened the cycle of Croyd novels , actually two series of novels connected by a common fictional universe . On the one hand, there is the series of Croyd Spacetime Maneuvres , in which Croyd, equipped with superhuman talents, has to face threats to galactic civilization in the world of the 25th century, where his ability to travel through time comes in handy, on the other hand, the series the SF detective stories about Claudine St. Cyr, a galactic investigator whose cases put the existence of entire planets at stake. The novel Heller's Leap (1979) forms a crossover of both series, as Claudine St. Cyr uses Croyd's help here. The novels from the Croyd universe are large-scale space operas , which have been compared with both the works of EE Smith and those of AE van Vogt , with the latter in particular because of its complex plot, which is even more confusing due to time paradoxes, and because of the Weaknesses in dialogue. John Clute calls Wallace's dialogues “amazingly awkward” and George Kelley calls it “pseudo-profound speeches”.

In addition to science fiction, he wrote two non-fiction books and wrote numerous teaching texts and materials in his professional role.

In 1938 he married Elizabeth Paul and had two sons from this marriage. Wallace died in 1998 at the age of 85.

bibliography

Croyd Spacetime Maneuvres (novel series)
  • Croyd (1967)
    • English: The great Croyd. Marion von Schröder ( Science Fiction & Fantastica ), 1969. Also as: Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3246, 1971.
  • Dr. Orpheus (1968)
  • Pan Sagittarius (1973)
    • German: Pan Sagittarius. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3806, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30708-9 .
  • A Voyage to Dari (1974)
    • German: A trip to Dari. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3757, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30660-0 .
  • The World Asunder (1976)
  • Z-Sting (1978)
  • The Lucifer Comet (1980)
  • Megalomania (1989)
St. Cyr Interplanetary Detective (Novel Series)
  • Deathstar Voyage (1969)
    • English: The flight to Ligeria. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3595, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30502-7 .
  • The Purloined Prince (1971)
  • The Sign of the Mute Medusa (1977)
  • Heller's Leap (1979)
Novels
  • Every Crazy Wind (1952, as John Wallace Pritchard)
  • The Rape of the Sun (1982)
Non-fiction
  • Frank Cody, A Realist in Education (1943, Detroit Board of Education )
  • Off to Work (1962, with Paul H. Voelker, as John W. Pritchard)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pritchard, John Wallace (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1998
Place of death Las Vegas , Nevada