Malcolm Jameson

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Malcolm Routh Jameson (born December 21, 1891 in Waco , Texas ; died April 16, 1945 in New York City ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Jameson served as an officer in the US Navy from 1916 to 1927 and was then engaged in ammunition development. His writing career only began when cancer forced him to give up his job. In 1938 a first story appeared in the pulp magazine Astounding . Although his health was poor in the years that followed, Jameson proved to be a very prolific writer who published over 70 short stories and one novel by his death in 1945. Two more novels appeared posthumously .

Mention should be made of the short story series about Bullard, an officer in the interplanetary Space Patrol , in which Jameson incorporated his experience as a naval officer, the story Doubled and Redoubled , in which a time loop plays a role, and the novel Atomic Bomb (1945, previously as The Giant Atom published), about an atomic bomb explosion .

His story Blind Alley (1943) was the basis of the episode Of Late I think of Cliffordville (German A devilish restart ) of the television series Twilight Zone .

bibliography

Bullard series (short stories)
  • Admiral's Inspection (1940)
  • White Mutiny (1940)
  • Blockade Runner (1941)
  • Slacker's Paradise (1941)
  • Devil's Powder (1941)
  • Bullard Reflects (1941)
  • Brimstone Bill (1942)
  • The Bureaucrat (1944)
  • Orders (1945)
  • Bullard of the Space Patrol (1951, collection)
  • Bullard: Tales of the Patrol (2013, collection)
Anachron (short stories)
  • Anachron, Inc. (1942)
  • Barrius, Imp (1943)
  • When is when? (1943)
Probability Zero (short stories)
  • Pig Trap (1942)
  • Eureka! (1942)
  • Probability Zero! (1942, with Hal Clement, Harry Warner, Jr., Dennis Tucker, and P. Schuyler Miller)
  • Efficiency (1943, as Colin Keith)
  • Downfall (1943)
  • The Vacuumulator (1944)
Novels
  • Quicksands of Youthwardness (1940)
  • Atomic Bomb (1945)
  • Tarnished Utopia (1956)
Collections
  • The Best of Malcolm Jameson
    • 1 Chariots of San Fernando and Other Stories (2011, collection)
    • 2 The Alien Envoy and Other Stories (2012, collection)
  • The Giant Atom (2013)
  • Blind Man's Buff and Other Stories (2013)
  • Anachron, Inc. and Other Stories (2013)
  • The Fantastic Worlds of Malcolm Jameson (2013)
Short stories
  • Eviction by Isotherm (1938)
  • "Seaward!" (1938)
  • Mill of the Gods (1939)
  • Children of the "Betsy B" (1939)
  • Catalyst Poison (1939)
  • A Question of Salvage (1939)
  • Einstein in Reverse (1940)
  • Philtered Power (1940)
  • Train for Flushing (1940)
  • Joshua's Battering Ram (1940)
  • The Monster Out of Space (1940)
  • Murder in the Time World (1940)
  • Prospectors of Space (1940)
  • 4½ B, Eros (1941)
  • Doubled and Redoubled (1941)
  • Dead End (1941)
  • The Man Who Loved Planks (1941)
  • Not According to Dante (1941)
    • German: Without Dante to hell. In: Kurt Singer (Ed.): Satansbraten à la carte. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 59), 1978.
  • Even the Angels (1941)
  • You Can't Win (1941)
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1941, as Colin Keith)
  • Time Column (1941)
  • Soup King (1942, as Colin Keith)
  • In His Own Image (1942)
  • The Superfluous Phantom (1942)
  • "If You're Smart—" (1942, as Colin Keith)
  • Vengeance in Her Bones (1942)
  • The Old Ones Hear (1942)
  • Fighters Never Quit (1942)
  • Land of the Burning Sea (1942)
  • Stellar Showboat (1942)
  • Wreckers of the Star Patrol (1942)
  • Pride (1942)
  • The Goddesses Legacy (1942)
  • Sand (1942, as Colin Keith)
  • Taa the Terrible (1942)
  • Lotus Juice (1943)
  • The Giftie Gien (1943)
  • Blind Alley (1943, also as Of Late I think of Cliffordville , 2010)
  • Heaven Is What You Make It (1943)
  • The Giant Atom (1943)
  • The Leech (1944)
  • The Anarch (1944)
  • Hobo God (1944)
  • Blind Man's Buff (1944)
  • Alien Envoy (1944)
  • Tricky Tonnage (1944)
  • Lilies of Life (1945, also as Planet of Doom )
  • Brains for Bricks (1945)
  • Death by Proxy (1945)
  • Chariots of San Fernando (1946)

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personal data
SURNAME Jameson, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jameson, Malcolm Routh (full name); M. Jameson, Malcolm (alternative spelling); Jamieson, Malcolm (alternative spelling); Keith, Colin (pen name); MacGregor, Mary (pen name); Keith, Colin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Waco , Texas
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1945
Place of death New York City