Katherine MacLean

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Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925 in Glen Ridge , New Jersey ; died September 1, 2019 ) was an American science fiction writer. She was best known for her short stories, many of which were anthologized .

Life

MacLean was the daughter of Gordon MacLean and Ruth MacLean, née Crawford. She studied economics at Barnard College , New York City , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1950 , and later again at Goddard College in Plainfield , Vermont , where she received her master's degree in psychology in 1977 .

From 1944 onwards she worked in various positions, including assistant nurse, department store detective, pollster, laboratory assistant, quality controller in a food factory, payroll clerk, college teacher and reporter, as she herself said, “the usual list of various jobs you get if you don't care about the whole thing Lives to commit. ”From 1962 to 1965 she worked at the English Department of the University of Connecticut in Storrs and from 1966 to 1977 with interruptions at the University of Maine in Orono .

MacLean's first SF short story, Defense Mechanism , appeared in Astounding in 1949 , which is where many of her subsequent short stories would appear. As with many of their stories, this is about psi talents and telepathy . Although concepts and questions from psychology, sociology and related areas are central to MacLean's science fiction, it is not a forerunner of later SF currents, in which the emphasis shifted to psychology and other “soft” sciences. The tone and attitude are those of the Hard-SF , with a generally positive view of future developments. McLean is also not a forerunner of “feminist” SF, rather her female characters tend to move in the background and completely correspond to the conventions of the time.

With her story The Missing Man from 1971 she won the Nebula Award . The fix-up novel Missing Man (1975) was also translated into German as Der Esper und die Stadt . As an author whose work deserves further attention, she received the 2011 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award .

She was married from 1951 to 1953 to the writer Charles Dye, under whose name several of her stories appeared, and from 1956 to 1962 to the writer David Mason, with whom she has a son.

Awards

bibliography

Kalin Trobt (series of novels, with Charles V. De Vet )
  • Second Game (1958, short story)
  • Cosmic Checkmate (1962)
  • Second Game (1981)
Rescue Squad (short story series)
  • Fear Hound (1968)
    • German: The fear detector. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 54. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 103 (3187)), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03187-0 .
  • Variant: Rescue Squad (1984)
  • Rescue Squad for Ahmed (1970)
  • The Missing Man (1971)
    • English: The missing man. In: Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (Ed.): Good news from the Vatican and other "Nebula" prize stories 1. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6721), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6721-0 .
Novels
  • The Man in the Bird Cage (1971)
  • Missing Man (1975)
  • Dark Wing (1979, with Carl West)
Collections
  • The Diploids (1962)
  • The Trouble with You Earth People (1980)
  • Science Fiction Collection (2016)
  • The 29th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2016)
Short stories
  • Defense Mechanism (1949)
  • And Be Merry ... (1950, also as The Pyramid in the Desert )
  • Incommunicado (1950)
  • Contagion (1950)
    • German: contagion. In: René Oth (ed.): When everything was different. Luchterhand (Luchterhand Collection # 530), 1985, ISBN 3-472-61530-3 .
  • A Fable of the Sholvis (1951, with Charles Dye)
  • The Fittest (1951)
  • High Flight (1951)
  • Feedback (1951)
    • German: Feedback. In: Herbert W. Maly (Ed.): The metal dream. Lichtenberg (Science Fiction for Connoisseurs # 15), 1971, ISBN 3-7852-2015-4 .
  • Syndrome Johnny (1951, also as Charles Dye)
  • Pictures Don't Lie (1951)
    • German: Pictures don't lie. In: Just a Martian Woman and Other Science Fiction Stories. Ullstein (Ullstein Books # 248), 1959.
  • Communicado (1952)
  • The Man Who Staked the Stars (1952, with Charles Dye)
  • The Snowball Effect (1952)
  • The Origin of the Species (1953)
  • Games (1953)
    • German: games. In: Ernst Fuchs, Hans Joachim Alpers (ed.): New science fiction stories. Tosa, 1982, ISBN 3-85001-097-X .
  • The Diploids (1953, also called The Diploids — Die, Freak )
  • The Natives (1953)
  • Where or When? (1953)
  • Gimmick (1953)
  • The Carnivore (1953, also as GA Morris)
  • Web of the Worlds (1953, with Harry Harrison )
  • Collision Orbit (1954)
  • The Prize (1955, with Michael Porjes)
  • These Truths (1958)
  • Web of the Norns (1958, with Harry Harrison)
  • Unhuman Sacrifice (1958)
    • German: an inhuman victim. In: Franz Rottensteiner (Ed.): The rat in the labyrinth. Insel (Fantastic Reality: Science Fiction of the World), 1971. Also as: An inhuman victim. In: Werner Fuchs (Hrsg.): Grotto of the dancing game. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5754), 1982, ISBN 3-426-05754-9 .
  • Trouble with Treaties (1959, with Tom Condit)
  • Interbalance (1960)
    • German: compensation? In: Anthony Boucher (Ed.): 16 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 5), 1964.
  • Six Scenes in Search of an Illustration (1963, with Fritz Leiber , John Pocsik, Michael Moorcock , Dick Eney and L. Sprague de Camp )
  • The Other (1966)
    • German: The other. In: Terry Carr (ed.): Beyond all dreams. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 74), 1980.
  • The Trouble with You Earth People (1968)
  • Perchance to Dream (1970)
  • Echo (1970)
  • Brain Wipe (1973)
  • Chicken Soup (1973, with Mary Kornbluth)
  • Small War (1973)
  • The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl (1975)
  • Canary Bird (1978)
    • German: The canary. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): Nick Adams' last rise. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6718), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6718-0 .
  • Night Rise (1978)
  • The Olmec Football Player (1980)
  • Isaac My Son (1994, with Carl West)
  • Planet Virt (1994)
  • The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 (1995)
  • Kiss Me (1997)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Katherine Anne MacLean  - Sources and full texts (English)
Commons : Katherine MacLean  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary accessed on September 8, 2019
  2. ^ Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , p. 170.
  3. ^ Charles Dye (1925 - approx. 1960). See John Clute , Peter Nicholls : Dye, Charles. In: (dies.): The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Actually Samuel Mason (1924-1974). See John Clute : Mason, David. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME MacLean, Katherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacLean, Katherine Anne (full name); Dye, Katherine MacLean (married name); Dye, Charles (pen name); Mac Lean, Katherine (alternative spelling); Maclean, K. (alternative spelling); MacLean, Catherine (alternative spelling); McLean, Katherine (alternative spelling); Morris, GA (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Glen Ridge , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH 1st September 2019