Peter Tate

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Peter Tate (born April 3, 1940 in Cardiff , Wales ) is a British science fiction writer and journalist.

He published his first SF story in 1966 in the British SF magazine New Worlds . In 1969 the novel The Thinking Seat (German as Das verplante Paradies ) followed, at the same time the first novel in a trilogy loosely connected by the main character of the charismatic guru Simeon.

Tate's science fiction is mostly set in the near future, uses realistic narrative forms and backgrounds and often deals with problems that exist or can be extrapolated in the present. It is based on the manifestation of evil in a generally good world, with evil in things - such as atomic bombs or, as in Country Love and Poison Rain (1973), a nerve gas depot in the Welsh Brecon Beacons - or in people - for example dictators or representatives of a dogmatic church - can embody.

Tates SF is literarily ambitious and linguistically often playful. Another feature is that he takes up fictional characters and locations from other novels. The books in the Simeon series are essentially linked by the main characters Simeon and Tomorrow Julie, or in Moon on an Iron Meadow (1974, German as moonlight on steely meadows ) he attacks the fictional location Green Town, Illinois, from Ray Bradbury's Das Evil comes up quietly again.

bibliography

  • Simeon (novel trilogy)
  • 1 The Thinking Seat (1969)
    • German: The planned paradise. Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Orbit # 33), 1973, ISBN 3-436-01805-8 .
  • 2 Moon On an Iron Meadow (1974)
    • English: moonlight on steel meadows. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3581, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30476-4 .
  • 3 Faces in the Flames: Fourth in a Series of Small Wars (1976)
Novels
  • Gardens, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (1971, also called Gardens One to Five )
  • Country Love and Poison Rain (1973)
    • German: Country air and deadly rain. Translated by Gisela Stege. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3436, 1975, ISBN 3-453-30326-1 .

Relationships Heyne books; No. 3436: Science Fiction

  • Greencomber (1979)
collection
  • Seagulls Under Glass and Other Stories (1975)
Short stories
  • The Post-Mortem People (1966, also revised as Beyond the Weeds , 1968)
  • Fifth Person Singular (1966)
  • The Gloom Pattern (1966)
  • The First Last Martyr (1966)
  • The Thinking Seat (1966)
  • Mars Pastorale or I'm Fertile, Said Felix (1967)
  • Same Autumn in a Different Park (1967)
  • The Day the Wind Died (1969)
    • German: When the wind died. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): When the wind died. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3288, 1972.
  • Main Chance (1970)
  • Protest (1974, also called Crumbling Hollywood Mansion, Crumbling Hollywood Man , 1975)
  • Dear Witch Hazel, My Birds Won't Fly (1974)
    • English: Dear Hexe Hazel, my birds do not fly away… In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 2. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3398, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30293-1 .
  • Daylength Talking Blues (1975)
  • Seagulls Under Glass (1975)
  • Skyhammer (1975)
  • Welcome to the Land of Smiles (1975)
Non-fiction
  • The New Forest, 900 years after (1979)

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personal data
SURNAME Tate, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales