Jeff Sutton

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Jefferson "Jeff" Howard Sutton (born July 25, 1913 in Los Angeles , California ; died January 31, 1979 in La Mesa , California) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Sutton was the son of Thomas Shelley Sutton and Sarah Elizabeth, nee King. His father was a longtime editor of the Los Angeles Examiner , where Sutton began working as an office assistant when he was 14. From 1932 to 1936 he served in the US Marine Corps , after which he worked as a photo reporter for International News Photos until 1940 . In 1941 he married Eugenia "Jean" Geneva Hansen, with whom he had two children. In World War II he served again in the armed forces and was deployed with the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific. His novel The River (1966) processes his experiences on Guadalcanal .

After the war, he studied psychology at San Diego State College , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1954 and his master's degree in 1956 . In the years that followed, Sutton worked as a development engineer in the ergonomics department and technical writer for various avionics companies, including General Dynamics and Convair , from 1960 until his death as a freelance consultant and author.

Sutton's first science fiction novel First on the Moon (1958, German as moon crew radio SOS ) describes a conflict on the moon between American and Soviet astronauts , the second, Bombs in Orbit (1959, German as men - bombs - satellites ) describes an analogous conflict in Earth orbit after the Soviet Union installed nuclear-armed satellites and a force to protect them. The third novel Spacehive (1960, German as a springboard into space ) reverses the situation, in that an American installation in orbit is now being attacked by Soviet astronauts. The three books are described as technically competent and technically sound on the one hand, and conventional products of the Cold War mentality burdened by stereotypes on the other .

Apollo at Go (1963, German as Apollo on the moon course ) and the successor Beyond Apollo (1966) were aimed at young readers and dealt in fictional form with the Apollo program , the first moon landing - whereby it missed the actual date in 1969 by only 9 days - and the continuation of the program, which in reality then never happened.

Together with his wife, Jean Sutton , Sutton wrote six SF novels for young people from 1966 to 1971, including The Beyond (1968, German as Die Welt der Ausfallsen ), in which the gifted ESP are banished to a prison planet, and Lord of the Stars ( 1969), a space opera in which a teenage hero battles a galactic alien empire.

In 1979, Sutton died at his home in La Mesa at the age of 65 . His estate is in the archives of San Diego State University .

bibliography

Novels
  • First on the Moon (1958)
    • German: Moon crew radio SOS. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 157), 1961.
  • Bombs in Orbit (1959)
    • English: Men - Bombs - Satellites. Pabel (Pabel-Taschenbuch # 21), 1960.
  • Spacehive (1960)
  • Apollo at Go (1963, children's book)
    • German: Apollo on course for the moon. Moewig (Terra special volume # 92), 1965.
  • The Man Who Had No Brains (1961, also as The Atom Conspiracy , 1963)
    • German: The nuclear conspiracy. Moewig (Terra # 354), 1964.
  • The Missile Lords (1963)
  • Beyond Apollo (1966, children's book)
  • The River (1966, with Jean Sutton)
  • H-Bomb Over America (1967)
  • The Beyond (1968, with Jean Sutton)
    • German: The world of the outcasts. Moewig (Terra Nova # 82), 1969.
  • The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1968)
    • German: The man who came from the future. Moewig (Terra Nova # 102), 1969.
  • The Programmed Man (1968, with Jean Sutton)
    • German: The programmed human. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 169), 1969.
  • Lord of the Stars (1969, with Jean Sutton)
  • Alien from the Stars (1970, with Jean Sutton)
  • Alton's Unguessable (1970)
    • German: The thousand eyes of the Krado 1. Ullstein 2000 # 6 (2812), 1971, ISBN 3-548-02812-8 .
  • Whisper from the Stars (1970)
  • The Boy Who Had the Power (1971, with Jean Sutton)
  • The Mindblocked Man (1972)
    • German: The Teleporter. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Paperback # 21043, 1974, ISBN 3-404-09960-5 .
  • Cassady (1979)
Short stories
  • The Third Empire (1955)
  • After Ixmal (1962)
  • Forerunner (1973)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Sutton, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutton, Jefferson Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1979
Place of death La Mesa , California