Leigh Richmond

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Leigh Tucker Richmond (born on 21st April 1911 ; died on 14. July 1995 in Haywood , North Carolina ) was an American science fiction - writer who primarily in collaboration with her husband Richmond Walt worked.

Life

Richmond was the daughter of the preacher Royal K. Tucker and Juliet Tucker, nee Luttrell. She studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Tulane University in New Orleans . After completing her studies, she worked as a reporter, photographer and editor for various newspapers.

Together with her husband, Richmond ran the Centric Foundation, founded by the two in Merritt Island, Florida, which dealt with the application of unconventional thinking to the foundations of physics and the natural sciences in general, particularly in education and study. Despite the name, the Centric Foundation seems to have represented marginal positions within basic physics.

The couple's science fiction was also committed to the goals of the Centric Foundation , namely to encourage openness to unconventional ideas and the ultimate belief in technical miracles. Ingenious heroes full of ingenious ideas are busy pushing the boundaries of knowledge and raising the human mind to new levels. In Probability Corner (1977) and Phase Two (1980), for example, children develop superhuman powers or advanced solar technologies are invented by prehistoric superhumans in The Lost Millennium (1967, German as Das Verschollene Millennium ). Stephen H. Goldman stated, “Although many of the inventions test the faith of even the die-hardest sci-fi fan, these novels do what science fiction is supposed to do, which is the sense of the wonderful and amazing in Awakening readers. ”And Karen G. Way laments that the zeal and determination of the Richmond amateur hobbyist building a matter transmitter with a few wires and coils in the basement is an innocence of science fiction that is lost forever is.

She and Walt Richmond had a son (born 1951). She had two children from previous marriages (Tucker Loane Stoodley, born 1936, and Rusty Porter, born 1940). After Walt Richmond's death in 1977, she married Richard V. Donahue in 1979. Together with him she wrote the novel Blindsided , published in 1993 .

bibliography

Novels
  • Shock Wave (1967, with Walt Richmond)
    • English: Shock wave in the cosmos. Moewig (Terra Nova # 49), 1969.
  • The Lost Millennium (1967, also as Siva ! , 1979, with Walt Richmond)
    • German: The lost millennium. Translated by Antonius Linneborn. Michaels-Verlag, Peiting 1998, ISBN 3-89539-292-8 . * Phoenix Ship (1969, with Walt Richmond)
  • Gallagher's Glacier (1970, with Walt Richmond)
  • Where I Wasn't Going (1963, also as Challenge the Hellmaker , 1976, with Walt Richmond)
  • The Probability Corner (1977, with Walt Richmond)
  • Phase Two (1979, with Walt Richmond)
  • Blindsided (1993, as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, with Dick Richmond-Donahue)
collection
  • Positive Charge (1970, with Walt Richmond)
Willy Shorts (series of short stories, starring Walt Richmond)
  • Shortsite (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • I, BEM (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • Shortstack (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • Shorts Wing (1970, with Walt Richmond)
Short stories
  • Prologue to an Analogue (1961)
  • Poppa Needs Shorts (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • The Pie-Duddle Puddle (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • Gallagher's Glacier (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • M'Lord Is the Shepherd (1965, with Walt Richmond)
  • Cows Can't Eat Grass (1967, with Walt Richmond)
  • There is a Tide (1968, with RC FitzPatrick)
  • "If the Sabot Fits ..." (1968, with Walt Richmond)
  • Antalogia (1973, with Walt Richmond)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ While many of the discoveries may strain the credulity of even the most devoted science fiction fan, these novels remain true to the central goal of science fiction: to instill a sense of wonder in its readers. Stephen H. Goldman: Richmond, Walt and Leigh . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 386.
  2. ^ Karen G. Way: Richmond, Walt and Leigh . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, p. 665.
personal data
SURNAME Richmond, Leigh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richmond, Leigh Tucker (full name); Tucker, Leigh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1911
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1995
Place of death Haywood , North Carolina