Michael McCollum

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Michael Allen McCollum (* 1946 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American science fiction author and aeronautical engineer.

Life

Michael Allen McCollum was born in Phoenix , Arizona in 1946 . He attended Arizona State University, which he graduated with degrees in aerospace and nuclear engineering. McCollum is employed by Honeywell in Tempe , Ariz., As the lead engineer in valve manufacturing . He worked during his career, among others, the forerunner of the Space Shuttle - engine , on a replacement for the defective valve of the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Iceland , at various guided missiles, the International Space Station , as well as many different types of aircraft .

In addition to his work as an engineer, McCollum has been writing science fiction novels since 1974. He published a dozen short stories and several novels , some of which build on one another in cycles . His novels are characterized by an unusual closeness to reality: McCollum largely dispenses with concepts such as beaming or artificial gravity and instead sticks to physical principles, lets his spaceships use transfer orbits and also takes into account the delay in light-fast communication.

Michael McCollum is married with three grown children.

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Life probes (Makers)

  • Vol. 1: Life PROBE , also: Life Probe , 1983
Volume 1: Die Lebenssonde , Heyne, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09442-5
Probe , contained in the anthology Lebenssonden
  • Vol. 2: Procyon's Promise , 1985
Planetary system Procyon , contained in the anthology Lebenssonden
(Original compilation by Heyne-Verlag)

The Antares War

  • Vol. 1: Antares Dawn , 1986
Volume 1: Antares goes out , Heyne, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09443-3
Antares: Dawn , contained in the anthology Der Antares War
  • Vol. 2: Antares Passage , 1987
Volume 2: Antares-Passage , Heyne, 1998, ISBN 3-453-13312-9
Antares: passage contained in the anthology The Antares War
  • Vol. 3: Antares Victory , 2002
Antares: Victory , contained in the anthology The Antares War
(Original compilation by Heyne-Verlag)

Gibraltar Stars

  • Vol. 1: Gibraltar Earth , 1999
Volume 1: Sternenfeuer , Heyne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52320-3
  • Vol. 2: Gibraltar Sun , 2006
Volume 2: Star Storms , Heyne, 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52321-0
  • Vol. 3: Gibraltar Stars , 2009
(No German publication yet)

Single novels

  • A Greater Infinity , 1982
Greater Infinity , Atlantis, 2005, ISBN 3-936742-59-6
  • Thunder Strike! , also: Thunderstrike! , 1989
Hit , Heyne, 1991, ISBN 3-453-05000-2
Sternenfall , Heyne, 2009, ISBN 3-453-52555-8
  • The Clouds of Saturn , 1991
The clouds of Saturn , Heyne, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09444-1
  • The Sails of Tau Ceti , 1992
The sails of Tau-Ceti , Heyne, 2008, ISBN 3-453-52501-9

Collections

  • Gridlock and Other Stories , 1998

contains:

  • "Beer Run", 1979
  • "Duty, Honor, Planet", 1979
  • "Gift", 1980
  • "Life Probe", 1983
  • "Scoop", 1979
  • "Who Will Guard the Guardians?", With Catherine McCollum , 1982
  • "The Shroud", 1981 ( "The Shroud" )
  • "Man of the Renaissance", 1988
  • "Gridlock", 1989
  • "Dream World", 1993
  • "Lysenko's Legacy", 1998
  • "Gibraltar Stars (Chapter 1)", 1998

Other short stories

  • "A Greater Infinity", 1980 ( "A Greater Infinity" )
A greater infinity , published in the anthology Analog 4, Moewig, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3583-1
  • "Which Way to the Ends of Time?", 1981 ( "Where are you going at the end of time?" )
Where are you at the end of time please? , published in the anthology Analog 5, Moewig, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3595-5
  • The Void , 1995

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personal data
SURNAME McCollum, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCollum, Michael Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona, USA