Joseph Green (Author)

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Joseph Lee Green (born January 14, 1931 in Compass Lake , Jackson County , Florida ) is an American science fiction writer and science editor who worked for NASA at the John F. Kennedy Space Center for 31 years .

Life

Green is the son of Francis Marion Green and Mattie Green, nee Carlisle. He studied at the University of Alabama , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. After completing his studies, he worked from 1949 to 1951 as a laboratory technician for International Paper in Panama City , then as a workshop worker, welder and machine fitter in setting up launching bases for Bomarc and Minuteman missiles. From 1959 to 1963 he worked for Boeing and from 1965 he was a technical and scientific editor at NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, most recently there he was deputy head of the Education Office , in which scientific information from NASA was made popular for the public. He retired in the late 1990s.

In 1951 he married Juanita Henderson, with whom he has a son and a daughter and from whom he divorced in 1975. In the same year he married Patrice Milton, with whom he has two daughters.

His first short story, The Engineer , appeared in SF magazine New Worlds in 1962 . Since then, Green has published over 70 short stories and six novels. His best-known novel is Gold the Man (1971, also published as The Mind Behind the Eye , German title The Sleeping Giant ), which is about the war between humans and the Hilt-Sil, a race of 100-meter-tall humanoid giants. One of the giants is captured and gold, a superman with an expanded neocortex , is installed in his head and can thus make his observations on the Hilt-Sil homeworld. This world is portrayed as a peaceful utopia, which, however, is threatened by the impending destruction of its sun.

A frequent topic in Greens SF is the encounter with extraterrestrial intelligences. His aliens are not horror figures that appeal to primitive fears, but only strange creatures that need to be understood. This positive approach to non-violent conflict resolution during the Cold War era , during which his novels were written, gives Green's novels and stories a likeable impression.

Much of Green's early short stories were collected in An Affair with Genius (1969). His short story The Decision Makers was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966. Since 1989 Green has also published several short stories under the pseudonym Francis Marion Soty. From 2002, Green's short stories also appeared in online magazines.

bibliography

Novels
  • The Loafers of Refuge (1965)
  • Gold the Man (1971, also as The Mind Behind the Eye , 1972)
  • Conscience Interplanetary (1972)
  • Star Probe (1976)
    • English: Invasion out of nowhere. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Paperback # 21085, 1976, ISBN 3-404-00519-8 .
  • The Horde (1976)
  • Spies of Nyscandia (2017)
Collections
  • An Affair with Genius (1969)
    • German: Experiment Genius. Goldmann's Space Paperback # 0118, 1970.
  • Magicon Original Bookmark Anthology, # 3 (1989)
  • Running Wild (2016)
Short stories
  • The Engineer (1962)
    • German: The engineer. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • Initiation Rites (1962)
  • The Colonist (1962)
  • Once Around Arcturus (1962)
    • German: Once around Arcturus. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • Life Force (1962)
    • German: life force. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • Transmitter Problem (1962)
  • The Fourth Generation (1963)
  • The-Old-Man-in-the-Mountain (1963)
  • Refuge (1963)
  • Haggard Honeymoon (1964, with James Webbert)
  • The Creators (1964)
  • Single Combat (1964)
    • German: a duel. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • Treasure Hunt (1965)
  • Tunnel of Love (1965)
    • German: The tunnel of love. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • The Decision Makers (1965)
    • German: The commanders. In: Experiment Genius. 1970. Also as: The decision makers. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 61. Ullstein 2000 # 118 (3260), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03260-5 .
  • Dance of the Cats (1965)
    • German: dance of the cats. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • Birth of a Butterfly (1967)
  • Jinn (1968)
    • German: Experiment Genius. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • When I Have Passed Away (1969)
  • An Affair with Genius (1969)
    • German: Zwei Welten. In: Experiment Genius. 1970.
  • The Shamblers of Misery (1969)
  • Death and the Sensperience Poet (1970)
  • First Light on a Darkling Plain (1971)
  • Wrong Attitude (1971)
  • The Butterflies of Beauty (1971)
  • The Crier of Crystal (1971)
  • One Man Game (1972)
  • The Dwarfs of Zwergwelt (1972)
  • The Seventh Floor (1972)
  • Three-Tour Man (1972)
  • A Custom of the Children of Life (1972)
  • Let My People Go! (1973)
    • English: Let my people go !. In: Roger Elwood (ed.): Beyond Tomorrow. Ueberreuter, 1976, ISBN 3-8000-3137-X .
  • Space to Move (1973)
  • Robustus Revisited (1973)
  • The Birdlover (1973)
  • A Star is Born (1974)
  • Walk Barefoot on the Glass (1974)
  • The Waiting World (1974)
  • Jaybird's Song (1974)
  • A Death in Coventry (1975)
  • Encounter with a Carnivore (1975)
  • Last of the Chauvinists (1975)
  • Jeremiah, Born Dying (1976)
  • To See the Stars That Blind (1977, with Patrice Milton)
  • The Wind Among the Mindymuns (1978, with Patrice Milton)
  • The Speckled Gantry (1979, with Patrice Milton)
  • Gentle Into That Good Night (1981)
  • Still Fall the Gentle Rains (1981, with Patrice Milton)
  • Easy Ed (1982, with Patrice Milton)
  • In the Court of the Chrysoprase King (1983, with Patrice Milton)
  • And Be Lost Like Me (1983)
  • Raccoon Reaction (1983)
  • The Ruby Wand of Asrazel (1985)
  • The Election of Deputy Dr. Doom (1989, as Francis Marion Soty)
  • The Ultimate Prejudice (1989)
  • With Conscience of the New (1989, with Patrice Milton)
  • The Clean Limbs of Robots (1991, as Francis Marion Soty)
  • Call to Glory (1991, as Francis Marion Soty)
  • The Taking of Slaves (1992, as Francis Marion Soty)
  • Plague Ship (2006)
  • The Second Kalandar's Tale (2011, as Francis Marion Soty)
  • Turtle Love (2011)
  • The Gazelle Who Begged for Her Life (2015, as Francis Marion Soty)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on greenhousescribes.com, accessed March 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Bibliography on greenhousescribes.com, accessed March 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Joseph Lee (full name); Green, Joseph L. (alternative spelling); Soty, Francis Marion (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Compass Lake , Jackson County , Florida