Martin Caidin

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Martin Strasser Caidin (* 14. September 1927 in New York ; † 24. March 1997 in Tallahassee , Florida ) was an American non-fiction, and science fiction - author .

Life

Martin Caidin became an orphan at an early age and grew up partly in the children's home and partly on his grandparents' farm in New York State . He was very interested in technology; He published his first article on the design of Messerschmitt fighter aircraft at the age of 16. In 1945 he joined the merchant navy and worked in Japan for a few years . He served in the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and made it up to sergeant. He then moved to Florida, where he made aviation a hobby and worked on one of the early space programs. He then worked as a consultant for various airlines until 1964.

In addition to non-fiction books on space travel, military history and aviation, he wrote a number of science fiction novels, one of which was made into a film in 1969 under the title Lost in Space . When the novel was published again at the start of the film, the text from 1964 was changed significantly and adapted to the technical progress of the space program. Caidin also wrote the Steve Austin Cycle, which was the model for the film and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (and the offshoot The Seven Million Dollar Woman ). After these successes, Hollywood producers bought the film rights to almost every new book by the author, but only a few were actually made into films. Probably the most successful film adaptation of one of his books is The Last Countdown from 1980. A time travel story that tells the American aircraft carrier Nimitz, one day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The book was filmed with a large cast of stars including Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Katharine Ross. After all, Caidin was financially secure in this way and could devote himself to his favorite hobby, flying.

Caidin restored the oldest still flying Junkers Ju 52 , which he called "Iron Annie". It later went to Lufthansa and is still used for VIP flights today.

He died of thyroid cancer at the age of 69.

bibliography

Six Million Dollar Man ( tie-in novel series)
  • 3 High Crystal (1974)
    • German: The Street of the Gods. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Science Fiction # 0218, 1976, ISBN 3-442-23218-X .
  • 6 Cyborg IV (1975)
    • German: Cyborg IV. Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe # 21113), Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01122-8 .

Cyborg sub-series:

  • 1 cyborg (1972)
    • German: The corrected man. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Science Fiction of Chef Picks, 1974, ISBN 3-442-30292-7 .
  • 2 Operation Nuke (1973)
    • German: The human machine. Translated by Ekkehart Reinke. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Action # 21106, 1978, ISBN 3-404-01050-7 .
Messiah Stone (novels)
  • The Messiah Stone (1986)
  • Dark Messiah (1990)
Indiana Jones (tie-in novel series at Bantam)
  • 7 Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (1993)
    • English: Indiana Jones and the Hyenas of Heaven. Translated by Bettina Zeller. Goldmann # 43163, 1996, ISBN 3-442-43163-8 .
  • 8 Indiana Jones and the White Witch (1994)
    • English: Indiana Jones and the White Witch. Translated by Bettina Zeller. Goldmann # 43534, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-43534-X .
Novels
  • The Long Night (1956)
  • Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid (1960)
  • Race for the Moon (1960)
  • The Night Hamburg Died (1960)
  • Red Star in Space (1963)
  • Marooned (1964)
    • English: Trapped in space - risk without example: The daring rescue of the pilot of the Mercury 7: an astronaut novel. Translated by Charlotte Winheller . Lingen, Cologne 1964, DNB 1019958316 .
  • Devil Take All (1966)
  • The Last Fathom (1967)
    • German: Alarm in the deep sea. Translated by Wulf H. Bergner . Heyne SF&F # 3129, 1968.
  • No Man's World (1967)
  • The God Machine (1968)
    • German: The big computer. Translated by Wulf H. Bergner. Heyne SF&F # 3163/3164, 1969.
  • Four Came Back (1968)
    • German: Alarm in the space station. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 3189, 1970.
  • Anytime, Anywhere (1969)
  • The Mendelov Conspiracy (1969; also: Encounter Three , 1978)
  • Ballantine Inactive (1970)
  • Almost Midnight (1971)
  • The Cape (1971)
  • Maryjane Tonight at Angels Twelve (1972)
  • When War Comes (1972)
  • The Last Dogfight (1974)
  • Planetfall (1974)
  • Three Corners to Nowhere (1975)
    • English: Disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Translated by Burkhard Busse. Heyne-Bücher # 5709, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01152-X .
  • Whip (1976)
  • Aquarius Mission (1978)
    • German: Company Aquarius. Translated by Jürgen Saupe. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23313, 1979, ISBN 3-442-23313-5 .
  • Jericho 52 (1979)
  • Manfac (1979)
  • Wingborn (1979)
  • The Final Countdown (1980)
    • German: The last countdown. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23380, 1981, ISBN 3-442-23380-1 .
  • Star Bright (1980)
  • Tigers Are Burning (1980)
  • Deathmate (1982)
  • Killer Station (1985)
  • Zoboa (1986)
  • Exit Earth (1987)
  • Prison Ship (1989)
  • Beamriders! (1989)
  • Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future ( Buck Rogers Tie-in, 1995)
  • Natural or Supernatural? (1997)
  • The B-17: the Flying Fortress (2002)
Short stories
  • There Are No Fighter Pilots Down in Hell (1986, in: Janet Morris (Ed.): Rebels in Hell )
  • New Wings (excerpt from Prison Ship , 1991, in: Rick Wilber and Richard Mathews (Eds.): Subtropical Speculations: Anthology of Florida Science Fiction )
  • The Triangle with Four (or More) Sides (2002, in: Frank Spaeth (Ed.): Mysteries of the Deep )
  • Unidentified Submarine Objects (2002, in: Frank Spaeth (Ed.): Mysteries of the Deep )
Non-fiction
  • Rockets Beyond the Earth (1952)
  • Rockets and Missiles, Past And Future (1954; with David C. Cooke)
  • Worlds in Space (1954)
    • German: We advance into space. Drawings by Fred L. Wolff. Translated by Egon Strohm . Blanvalet, Berlin 1955, DNB 450733637 .
  • Air Force (1957)
  • Samurai! (1957, with Fred Saito and Sakai Saburō )
  • Vanguard !: The Story of the First Man-Made Satellite (1957)
  • Boeing 707 (1959)
  • Spaceport USA: The Story of Cape Canaveral and the Air Force Missile Test Center (1959)
    • English: The Cape Canaveral Story. Translated, edited and updated by Cord-Christian Troebst. Scherz, Bern, Stuttgart and Vienna 1961, DNB 450733629 .
  • A Torch to the Enemy (1960)
  • Man Into Space (1961)
  • The Astronauts (1961)
  • Test Pilot (1961)
  • Aviation and Space Medicine (1962)
  • I am eagle! : Based On Interviews With Wilfred Burchett and Anthony Purdy ((biography of German Titow ), 1962)
  • Rendezvous in Space (1962)
  • By Apollo to the Moon (1963)
  • Flying (1963)
  • The Long Arm of America (1963)
  • The Man-in-Space Dictionary (1963)
  • Everything But The Flak (1964)
  • Hydrospace (1964)
  • The Mighty Hercules (1964)
  • The Silken Angels (1964)
  • Wings Into Space: The History and Future of Winged Space Flight (1964)
  • Barnstorming (1965, via Wingwalking )
  • The Ragged, Rugged Warriors (1966)
  • Flying Forts: The B-17 in World War II (1968)
  • Me 109: Willy Messerschmitt's Peerless Fighter (1968)
    • German: The Me 109. Translated by Wilhelm Hesz. Moewig # 4305, Munich [ie Rastatt] 1981, ISBN 3-8118-4305-2 .
  • Zero Fighter (1969)
  • Zero! (1971; with Jirō Horikoshi and Masatake Okumiya)
  • Destination Mars: In Art, Myth, and Science (1972; with Jay Barbree and Susan Wright )
  • Golden Wings (1972)
  • When War Comes (1972)
  • Bicycles in War (1974; with Jay Barbree)
  • Kill Devil Hill (1979; with Harry Combs)
  • The Saga of Iron Annie (1979)
  • Thunderbolt: The P-47 (1983; with Robert S. Johnson)
  • Ragwings and Heavy Iron (1984)
  • Samurai! (1985; with Sakai Saburō )
  • Fork-tailed Devil (1990)
  • Ghosts of the Air (1991)
  • Pioneer Bush Pilot (1991)
  • Test Pilots (1992)
  • A Journey Through Time (1995; with Jay Barbree)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Lufthansa Ju 52 / 3m . Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved on November 8, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Caidin, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caidin, Martin Strasser (full name); Caidin, Martin von Strasser (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nonfiction and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1997
Place of death Tallahassee , Florida