CC MacApp

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CC MacApp (actually Carroll Mather Capps ; born November 27, 1913 in the United States ; died January 15, 1971 in California ) was an American science fiction writer and chess player .

Life

Capps worked in the printing industry until an illness forced him to quit the job in his 40s and from then on he devoted himself to writing science fiction, using the pseudonym "CC MacApp" almost entirely . A first short story, A Pride of Islands , was published in If magazine in 1960 , and almost 40 others followed, including the cycle of Gree stories, in which the protagonist Steve Duke fights against the galactic empire of the Gree . MacApps science fiction is predominantly action-oriented space opera with weaknesses in character drawing . His short story The Mercurymen was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966. From 1968 he wrote a number of novels, most of which were also translated into German.

Capps was President of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League , a member of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club, and multiple Masters in San Francisco and Northern California. In honor of his memory, the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club holds the Carroll Capps Memorial Tournament annually .

Capps died in 1971 at the age of 57.

bibliography

Gree (short story series)
  • The Slaves of Gree (1964)
  • Gree's Commandos (1965)
  • Gree's Hellcats (1965)
  • No Friend of Gree (1965)
  • Gree's Damned Ones (1965)
  • Like Any World of Gree (1966)
  • Enemies of Gree (1966)
  • The Sign of Gree (1966)
  • A Beachhead for Gree (1967)
Novels
  • Omha Abides (1968)
    • German: Murno, the liberator. Translated by Rosina Labisch. Bastei Lübbe # 21039, 1973, ISBN 3-404-09911-7 .
  • Prisoners of the Sky (1969)
  • Secret of the Sunless World (1969)
    • German: Die Dunkelwelt. Translated by Horst Pukallus. Bastei Lübbe # 21057, 1974, ISBN 3-404-04944-6 .
  • Worlds of the Wall (1969)
  • Recall Not Earth (1970)
    • English: mercenaries of a dead world. Translated by Monika Curths. Ullstein 2000 # 48 (2968), 1973, ISBN 3-548-12968-4 .
  • Subb (1971)
    • English: The riddle of the subbs. Translated by Rosemarie Ott. Bastei Lübbe # 21047, 1974, ISBN 3-404-09986-9 .
  • Bumsider (1972)
    • German: The Exiles from Outside. Translated by Michael Kubiak. Bastei Lübbe # 21050, 1974, ISBN 3-404-04906-3 .
collection
  • Somewhere in Space and Other Stories: The Best of CC MacApp Volume 1 (2014)
Short stories
  • A Pride of Islands (1960)
  • Tulan (1960)
  • The Drug (1961)
  • Specimen (1961)
  • All That Earthly Remains (1962)
  • A Guest of Ganymede (1963)
  • The Demon of the North (1963)
  • And All the Earth a Grave (1963)
  • Somewhere in Space (1964)
  • Under the Gaddyl (1964)
  • For Every Action (1964)
    • German: Strandgut im All. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 55. Ullstein 2000 # 105 (3195), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03195-1 .
  • Beyond the Ebon Wall (1964)
  • A Flask of Fine Arcturan (1965)
  • Sculptor (1965)
  • The Light Outside (1965)
  • The Mercurymen (1965)
  • Prisoners of the Sky (1966)
  • Trees Like Torches (1966)
  • Frost Planet (1966)
  • The Impersonators (1967)
  • Spare That Tree (1967)
  • A Ticket to Zenner (1967)
  • The Fortunes of Peace (1967)
    • English: The blessings of peace. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 79. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31008, 1979, ISBN 3-548-31008-7 .
  • The Judas Bug (1967, as Carroll M. Capps)
  • Winter of the Llangs (1967)
  • Mail Drop (1967)
  • When Sea is Born Again (1967)
  • Where the Subbs Go (1968)
  • The Hides of Marrech (1968)
  • Dream Street (1968)
  • Mad Ship (1969)
  • Hot World (1971)
    • German: Desert Colony. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 82. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31015, 1980, ISBN 3-548-31015-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carroll Mather Capps , item in The California Chess Reporter (Vol. 20, # 4: January-February 1971), accessed May 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ 40th Carroll Capps Memorial , October 25, 2012, accessed May 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME MacApp, CC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capps, Carroll Mather (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH United States
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1971
Place of death California