TJ bass

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TJ Bass (actually Thomas Joseph Bassler ; born July 7, 1932 in Clinton , Iowa ; died December 13, 2011 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American science fiction writer and doctor of medicine .

Life

Bassler graduated from the University of Iowa in 1959 . He gained notoriety for the largely rejected theory that non-smokers who run a marathon in under four hours could eat whatever they like and would never have a heart attack . Jim Fixx largely agreed with Bassler's theses in The Complete Book of Running . Tragically, Fixx died of a heart attack after running at the age of 52.

The US Congressman Goodloe Byron died in October 1978 while jogging in a heart attack. According to Nathan Pritikin , a pioneer in nutritional counseling, Byron completed the Boston Marathon six times with a personal best of 3:28:40, and by then had stopped smoking for 25 years. Byron was an avid reader of Bassler's book, so he ignored the warnings from his doctors that tests showed that Byron's coronary arteries were narrowing. Doctors advised Byron to stop doing endurance sports.

For Bassler, however, the cause was not a heart attack. He claimed that Byron died because he did not eat any of the essential foods that marathoners eat: yeast, yogurt, peanuts, beer, wheat germ, and vitamin C. ("He probably wasn't eating one of the six foods that marathoners eat : yeast, yogurt, peanuts, beer, wheat germ and vitamin C. "). After an autopsy , Manuel G. Jimenez contradicted him and replied: "For me, coronary heart muscle weakness, triggered by atherosclerosis, is clearly the cause of death." ("For me, it was plainly coronary insufficiency due to atherosclerosis.")

His novels Die Ameisenkultur and Der Gott-Wal were nominated for the Nebula Award . Ant culture emerged as a short story, which Bass later developed into a novel. He used his medical background to achieve a realistic level in his stories that has never been achieved to this day. Both novels tell of a human-like race with only four toes that has lost all aggressiveness.

bibliography

Hive
  • 1 Half Past Human (1971)
  • 2 The Godwhale (1974, extended version by Rorqual Maru )
    • German: Der Gott-Wal. Translated by Annette von Carpentier. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5751), 1982, ISBN 3-426-05751-4 .

Short stories:

  • Half Past Human (in: Galaxy Magazine, December 1969 )
  • Song of Kaia (in: If, November-December 1970 )
  • Rorqual Maru (in: Galaxy Magazine, January-February 1972 )
    • German: Das Ernteschiff. In: Donald A. Wollheim (Ed.): Der Zeitläufer. Pabel (Terra Paperback # 258), 1975.
Short stories
  • Star Itch (in: If, September 1968 , as Thomas J. Bassler, MD)
  • Star Seeder (in: If, September 1969 )
  • A Game of Biochess (in: Worlds of If, February 1970 )
  • The Beast of 309 (in: Worlds of If, January-February 1971 )
Non-fiction
  • as Thomas J. Bassler: The Whole Life Diet: An Integrated Program of Nutrition and Exercise for a Lifestyle of Total Health. 1979 (with Robert E. Burger)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Biography
  2. ↑ Special Report: Are Marathons Dangerous? In: Runner's World . Amy Burfoot, December 2008, p. 5.
  3. ^ John Robbins: What Should We Learn From The Deaths Of Fitness Icons? In: Huffington Post . January 31, 2011.
  4. ^ Nathan Pritikin: The Pritikin Promise: 28 Days to a Longer, Healthier Life . Simon & Schuster, 1983, ISBN 0-671-49447-3 , p. 83-84 .
  5. ^ Nathan Pritikin: Diet for Runners . Simon & Schuster, 1985, ISBN 0-671-55623-1 , p. 70 .
  6. ^ Nebula Final Ballots from the 1970s
personal data
SURNAME Bass, TJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassler, Thomas Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2011
Place of death Honolulu , Hawaii