Norman L. Knight

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Norman Louis Knight (born September 21, 1895 in Saint Joseph , Missouri ; died April 19, 1972 in Takoma Park , Maryland ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Knight was the son of Louis Ruthven and Mary Elizabeth Knight, nee Stauber. He attended Saint Joseph Junior College until 1918 and was drafted into the army upon graduation in July 1918. He served 8 months in the 29th Field Artillery, 10th Division , 4 of them in France, but was no longer in combat. From 1919 to 1925 he worked for the US Weather Bureau . In 1921 he married Marie Sarah Yenn, with whom he had a daughter. While he was employed by the national weather service, he also studied chemical engineering at George Washington University in Washington, DC , where he graduated in 1925 with a bachelor's degree. From 1925 until his retirement in 1964 he worked as a chemist and pesticide specialist for the US Food and Drug Administration and for the Pesticide Regulation Division at the Department of Agriculture's research laboratory in Beltsville , Maryland. In 1962 he received the Achievement Award from the Department of Agriculture .

A sideline writer, Knight published his first short story Frontier of the Unknown in Astounding Stories in 1937 . He published a total of eleven stories, mostly in Astounding . But he gained importance in the SF above all as a co-author of James Blish on A Torrent of Faces (1967, German thousand billion happy people ). In some earlier stories Knight's forerunners of A Torrent of Faces were thought to be recognized and accordingly Knight's contribution to the novel was estimated to be rather large. Knight himself presented his contribution as quite modest: “At Jim's request I wrote the part with the Tritons, I had invented them, as well as a transition chapter. The rest is Jim's job, he revised and improved the parts of me too. "

bibliography

novel
  • A Torrent of Faces (1967, with James Blish)
    • German: a thousand billion happy people. Translated by Helga Wingert-Uhde. Marion von Schröder (Science Fiction & Fantastica), 1969.
Short stories
  • Frontier of the Unknown (1937)
  • Isle of the Golden Swarm (1938)
  • Saurian Valedictory (1939)
  • Bombardment in Reverse (1940)
  • The Testament of Akubii (1940)
  • Short-Circuited Probability (1941)
  • Fugitive from Vanguard (1942)
  • Kilgallen's Lunar Legacy (1942)
  • Once in a Blue Moon (1942, also as Blue Moon )
  • Crisis in Utopia (1940, 1952)
  • The Shipwrecked Hotel (1965, with James Blish)
  • The Piper of Dis (1966, with James Blish)
  • To Love Another (1967, with James Blish)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I wrote the parts pertaining to the Tritons, at Jim's request, since I invented them. Also tie chapter, 'A Walk in the Paradise Garden.' The rest is Jim's handiwork; he also edited and improved my sections. See Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Detroit 1979, p. 964.
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Norman L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Norman Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Joseph , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1972
Place of death Takoma Park , Maryland