Perry A. Chapdelaine

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Perry Anthony Chapdelaine Sr. (born Perry Anthony Fabio on February 6, 1925 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ; died on November 24, 2015 ) was an American science fiction writer, editor, and Scientologist .

Life

Perry Anthony Fabio was the son of Anthony Louis Fabio and Beatrice Etta, nee Perry. After his father died when Perry was six years old, his mother married the watchmaker George Herbert Chapdelaine. He took his stepfather's name when Perry was 21, but in later years used Anthony di Fabio as the author's name for his books on arthritis . He grew up in Mason City , Iowa and studied at the University of Minnesota and, after joining the US Army in 1944 , engineering at the University of West Virginia . After the end of the Second World War he was released and continued to study at Iowa State Teachers College where he made a BA in mathematics in 1947. He then attended George Peabody College for Teachers , where he graduated in 1949 with an MA in Mathematics and Psychology.

Chapdelaine had been an avid reader of science fiction, and particularly Astounding , the legendary SF magazine published by John W. Campbell , from a young age . In May 1950 there appeared an article by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard entitled Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science. Shortly thereafter, Hubbard's Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health appeared and Champdelaine ordered it immediately. He read it and decided Dianetics - auditor to be. The course was held in New Jersey and cost $ 500. He sold his life insurance, dumped his wife and newborn child with his in-laws in Mobile , Alabama , and drove across the country to New Jersey.

After completing the course, Chapdelaine returned to Alabama and tried to set up a Dianetic Study Center there, but with little success. In 1951 he moved the family to Wichita Falls , where the Hubbard Research Foundation had moved, and began working as an auditor and secretary for the Association of Hubbard Dianetic Auditors . In the following years, Chapdelaine continued to work as an auditor in various cities in the USA, most recently in Phoenix , Arizona. In 1954, however, he decided to leave the Scientology career because his auditing could not meet the material needs of his growing family in the long run.

In 1954 the family returned to Mobile. Chapdelaine found a job there in the Mobile Air Material Area , a logistics center for the US Air Force . He soon moved to a department that dealt with the use of computers in the Air Force in the field of logistics and quality assurance . In 1962 the tenth child was born. In 1964, he moved the family to Nashville , Tennessee , where he worked as a high school math teacher and gave evening classes at the University of Tennessee . In 1966 he got a position as assistant professor of mathematics at Tennessee State University .

In 1967, a first short story by Chapdelaine, To Serve the Masters, was published in the science fiction magazine If . Others followed, including a series Spork of the Ayor with six stories that appeared from 1969 to 1978 and was collected in one volume as a fix-up in 1978 . After an argument, he lost his job at the university in 1970 and tried to support his family with various jobs. A first novel was published in 1974, Swampworld West , and a second, The Laughing Terran , in 1977 . But his attempt to become a full-time science fiction writer failed due to arthritis, which began to burden him more and more at the end of the 1970s and made it impossible for him to write. Through a combination of self-auditing and medical treatment based on the theories of the English doctor Roger Wyburn-Mason, he was able to find a cure. In 1982 he became a co-founder of the Arthritis Trust of America and wrote a number of books on arthritis and its treatment in the years that followed. Several of his children, especially his son Anthony Chapdelaine (born 1950), are still in leading positions in this organization to this day.

Together with George Hay and Tony Chapdelaine, Chapdelaine undertook to edit the letters of John W. Campbell. Two volumes of this edition have been published so far. The first volume, published in 1985, was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1986 in the non-fiction category, and came third at the 1987 Locus Awards .

bibliography

Spork of the Ayor (short stories)
  • 1 Spork of the Ayor (in: If, April 1969 )
  • 2 Spork and the Beast (in: If, May 1969 )
  • 3 Spork Conquers Civilization (in: If, July 1969 )
  • 4 Spork and the Ruby Galaxy (1978, in: Perry Chapdelaine: Spork of the Ayor )
  • 5 Spork and the Galactic Council (1978, in: Perry Chapdelaine: Spork of the Ayor )
  • 6 Baby I and Spork's Dilemma, The Beast and the Bio-Logs (1978, in: Perry Chapdelaine: Spork of the Ayor )
  • Spork of the Ayor (1978, collection)
Novels
  • Swampworld West (1974)
  • The Laughing Terran (1977)
Short stories
  • To Serve the Masters (in: If, September 1967 )
  • We Fused Ones (in: If, July 1968 )
  • Initial Contact (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1969 )
  • Brood World Barbarian (in: If, September 1969 )
  • To The Last Rite! (in: If, October 1969 )
  • Breathe! Breathe! Oh God, How I Would Breathe! (1970, in: Christopher Evans (Ed.): Mind in Chains )
  • Culture Shock (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1971 )
  • Charley (1974, in: George Hay (Ed.): Stopwatch )
  • The Return of Prince John Israel Mcwayizeni Shaka (1979, in: George Hay (Ed.): Pulsar 2 )
editor
  • The John W. Campbell Letters, Volume 1 (1985; with George Hay and Tony Chapdelaine)
  • The John W. Campbell Letters with Isaac Asimov and AE van Vogt, Volume 2 (1993; with Tony Chapdelaine and George Hay)
Arthritis Books (as Anthony di Fabio)
  • Rheumatoid Diseases Cured at Last (1985)
  • the Art of Getting Well! : Rheumatoid Arthritis Cured at Last !! (1988)
  • Arthritis: Little Known Treatments (1995)
  • Arthritis: About Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Disease, Including Rheumatoid Arthritis (2015; with Gus J. Prosch)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://arthritistrust.org/history/