Stephen Goldin

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Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Goldin is the son of David Goldin and Frances, née Cohen. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in astronomy . After graduating, he worked as a scientist for Navy Space Systems Activity in El Segundo , a department in the US Navy's space program, until 1972 , then briefly as manager of a grocery store in Rosemead and then for Jaundice Press as editor of the magazines San Francisco Ball and National Ball (1973–1974), which offered the reader a mixture of sex, humor and comics with an underground look and where he learned to write quickly, funny and hearty. In the following years Goldin worked mainly as a freelance writer, but in the meantime also as editor of the SFWA Bulletin (1975-1977), the quarterly of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , and the L5 News (1981-1983), the magazine of the L5 Society , which pursued the project of a space colony.

Goldin had published a science fiction story ( The Girls on USSF 193 , 1965) while he was still a student . A few more short stories followed, novels only 10 years later with Caravan and Herds , both in 1975.

In 1976 the novel Imperial Stars was published , a space opera and the first volume of a ten-volume saga in which an imperial family rules a star kingdom. The D'Alembert family of artists comes from a planet with high gravity, so its members have exceptional physical abilities. The artists are secretly agents of the imperial family who have to cope with various threats directed against the empire. In the first volume it is a group of smuggled assassins who are rendered harmless. Imperial Stars is based on a short story of the same name by EE Smith from 1964; Goldin also used the characters developed by Smith in the following volumes. In 2010, the Family D'Alembert saga appeared as Agents of ISIS in a revised version; the first volume Tsar Wars was completely rewritten and the subsequent volumes were adapted accordingly.

In 1976 the two novels Scavenger Hunt and Finish Line were published , which deal with an interstellar scavenger hunt - that is the translation of scavenger hunt - which takes place every 20 years and in which certain artifacts are found on different planets with the use of all means have to. The German translation left it at the title Scavenger Hunt .

Goldin was married to Kathleen McKinney from 1962 to 1982, who is known as a writer by the name of Kathleen Sky . In 1987 he married Mary Mason. He collaborated as a writer with both wives.

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Series

Angel in Black (short stories)
  • Bride of the Wind (1970)
  • For Services Rendered (1970)
  • The Chenoo (1971)
  • In the Land of Angra Mainyu (1975)
  • The Masai Witch (1983)
Family D'Alembert (with Edward E. Smith)
  • 1 Imperial Stars (1976)
    • English: The steel fortress. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21094, 1977, ISBN 3-404-00740-9 .
  • 2 Stranglers' Moon (1976)
    • English: The killer moon. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21096, 1977, ISBN 3-404-00777-8 .
  • 3 The Clockwork Traitor (1977)
    • English: the robot bomb. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21098, 1977, ISBN 3-404-00794-8 .
  • 4 Getaway World (1977)
    • German: Der Asyl-Planet. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21102, 1978, ISBN 3-404-00917-7 .
  • 5 Appointment at Bloodstar (1978, also as The Bloodstar Conspiracy )
    • German: meeting point death star. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21115, 1979, ISBN 3-404-01236-4 .
  • 6 The Purity Plot (1978)
    • English: The Puritan plot. Translated by Ingrid Rothmann. Bastei Lübbe TB # 21127, 1980, ISBN 3-404-21127-8 .
  • 7 Planet of Treachery (1982)
  • 8 Eclipsing Binaries (1983)
  • 9 the Omicron Invasion (1984)
  • 10 Revolt of the Galaxy (1985)
Scavenger Hunt
  • 1 Scavenger Hunt (1976)
  • 2 Finish Line (1976)
  • Scavenger Hunt (2001, collective edition of 1 and 2)
Mind saga
  • 1 Mindflight (1978)
  • 2 Mindsearch (2002)
Star Trek (Bantam Books)
  • 7 Trek to Madworld (1979)
    • German: The private universe. Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch # 328), 1980.
Rehumanization of Jade Darcy
  • 1 Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor (1988, with Mary Mason)
  • 2 Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates (1990, with Mary Mason)
The Parsina Saga
  • 1 Shrine of the Desert Mage (1988)
  • 2 The Storyteller and the Jann (1988)
  • 3 Crystals of Air and Water (1989)
  • 4 Treachery of the Demon King (2002)
  • The Dungeons of Ravan (1985, short story)
  • The Castle at the Top of the World (1986, short story)
Deborah Rabinowitz Mysteries / Detective William Hoy
  • The Height of Intrigue (1994, short story)
  • The Sword Unswayed (1998, short story)
  • Alien Murders (2009, collection)
Agents of ISIS
  • 1 Tsar Wars (2010)
  • 2 Treacherous Moon (2010)
  • 3 Robot Mountain (2010)
  • 4 Sanctuary Planet (2010)
  • 5 Stellar Revolution (2010)
  • 6 Purgatory Plot (2010)
  • 7 Traitors' World (2010)
  • 8 Counterfeit Stars (2010)
  • 9 Outworld Invaders (2010)
  • 10 Galactic Collapse (2010)

Single novels

  • Caravan (1975)
  • Stoves (1975)
  • Assault on the Gods (1977)
    • German: Attack on the gods. Translated by Peter Pape. Bastei Lübbe # 21120, 1979, ISBN 3-404-01394-8 .
  • The Eternity Brigade (1980)
  • Crossroads of the Galaxy (1981, as Steven Charles, also as Nexus 1: Crossroads of the Galaxy )
  • A World Called Solitude (1981)
    • English: The last of the robot world. Translated by Karl Schneider. Knaur-Science-fiction # 5801, 1985, ISBN 3-426-05801-4 .
  • And Not Make Dreams Your Master (1981)
    • English: slaves of dreams. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5780, 1984, ISBN 3-426-05780-8 .
  • Polly! (2008)
  • Quiet Post (2014)
  • Into the Out (2016)

Collections

  • The Last Ghost and Other Stories (1999)
  • Star Rooks (2004, with Kathleen Sky)
  • Angel in Black (2010)
  • Ghosts, Girls, & Other Phantasms (2011)

Anthologies

  • Protostars (1971, with David Gerrold)
  • Generation (1972, with David Gerrold)
  • The Alien Condition (1973)
  • Alternities (1974, with David Gerrold)
  • Ascents of Wonder (1977, with David Gerrold)

Short stories

  • The Girls on USSF 193 (1965)
    • English: The girls from USSF 193. In: Michael Nagula (Ed.): The timeless dream. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31080, 1977, ISBN 3-548-31080-X .
  • Sweet Dreams, Melissa (1968)
  • The Last Ghost (1971)
    • German: The last spirit. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The big clock. Heyne SF&F # 3541, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30434-9 .
  • The World Where Wishes Worked (1971)
  • Stubborn (1972)
  • Harriet (1973, with CF Hensel)
  • Nor Iron Bars a Cage (1973, with CF Hensel)
  • A Nice Place to Visit (1973)
  • Of Love, Free Will and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening (1974)
  • But As a Soldier, For His Country (1974)
  • Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts (1975)
  • Xenophobe (1975)
  • When There's No Man Around (1977)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young God (1977)
  • Painting the Roses Red (1980, with Kathleen Sky)
  • Apollyon Ex Machina (1980)
    • German: Appolyon ex Machina. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): Try to remember. Playboy Science Fiction # 6726, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6726-1 .
  • The Devil Behind the Leaves (1981, with Kathleen Sky)
  • One Step at a Time (1982, with Grant Carrington)
  • Grim Fairy Tale (1999)
  • Haunted Houses (1999)
  • The Djinn Garden (2009)
  • Prologue (2010)

Non-fiction

  • The Business of Being a Writer (1982, with Kathleen Sky)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Me: A Bio Sketch , accessed March 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Goldin, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldin, Stephen Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania