Rick Raphael

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Rick Raphael (born February 20, 1919 in New York City ; died January 4, 1994 in Golden Valley , Minnesota ) was an American journalist and science fiction writer.

Life

Raphael was the son of Louis Nevin Raphael and Viola Louise Raphael, nee Felix. From 1936 to 1946 he served in the US Army , most recently with the rank of captain . After retiring from the Army, he became a newspaper reporter and science journalist for print media, television and radio. In 1959 he became assistant news manager for KBOI radio station in Boise , Idaho . From 1965 to 1969 he was press secretary for Senator Frank Church and then manager at JC Penney .

In 1959, Raphael published his first short story, A Filbert is a Nut, in the science fiction magazine Astounding . Others followed, four of which were published in 1965 in The Thirst Quenchers , translated into German as rays from the water by Goldmann . The collection The Thirst Quenchers and Three Other Science Fiction Tales , published posthumously in 2010, contains a completely different selection apart from the cover story.

In 1963, the short story Code Three appeared , which he expanded into a fix-up novel three years later together with Once a Cop . It is about a police operation on the super highways in the near future, on which hovercrafts speed up to 500 kilometers per hour, translated into German under the appropriate title Die flying bombs . The subject is typical of Raphael's technically oriented science fiction, in which he extrapolated current problems - here the increasing traffic in ever faster, hardly controllable vehicles - into the future. Code Three was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1964 and Once a Cop in 1965 for best short story .

In 1958 he married Elizabeth L. Van Schaick, with whom he had six children. Raphael died in 1994 at the age of 74.

bibliography

Code Three
  • Code Three (1963, short story)
  • Once a Cop (1964, short story)
  • Code Three (1966, novel)
    • English: The flying bombs. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3099, 1967.
Collections
  • The Thirst Quenchers (1965)
    • German: rays from the water. Goldmann's science fiction # 71 / Goldmann's space paperbacks # 073, 1966.
  • The Thirst Quenchers and Three Other Science Fiction Tales (2010)
Short stories
  • A Filbert Is a Nut (1959)
  • Make Mine Homogenized (1960)
  • Sonny (1963)
  • The Thirst Quenchers (1963)
    • German: Leak in the water network. In: Rays from the water. 1966.
  • Identity Mistaken (1964)
  • Guttersnipe (1964)
    • German: rays from the water. In: Rays from the water. 1966.
  • Odd Man In (1965)
    • English: The ranch in the park. In: Rays from the water. 1966.
  • The Mailman Cometh (1965)
    • German: Galactic Post Station. In: Rays from the water. 1966.
  • The Defector (1980)
  • False Scent (1981)
  • Pelangus (1981)
  • The President Must Die (1981)

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personal data
SURNAME Raphael, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1994
Place of death Golden Valley , Minnesota