Walt Richmond

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Walter Forbes Richmond (born December 6, 1922 in Memphis , Tennessee ; died April 14, 1977 in Merritt Island , Florida ) was an American science fiction writer who worked exclusively in collaboration with his wife, Leigh Richmond .

Life

Richmond studied physics and was married to Leigh Tucker, with whom he had a son. His wife had two children from their first marriage. Richmond was together with his wife director of the two founded Centric Foundation in Merritt Island, Florida, which dealt with the application of unconventional thinking to the fundamentals of physics and the natural sciences in general, particularly in education and study. Despite the name, the Centric Foundation seems to have represented marginal positions within basic physics.

The couple's science fiction was also committed to the goals of the Centric Foundation , namely to encourage openness to unconventional ideas and the ultimate belief in technical miracles. Ingenious heroes full of ingenious ideas are busy pushing the boundaries of knowledge and raising the human mind to new levels. In Probability Corner (1977) and Phase Two (1980), for example, children develop superhuman powers or advanced solar technologies are invented by prehistoric superhumans in The Lost Millennium (1967, German as Das Verschollene Millennium ). Stephen H. Goldman stated, “Although many of the inventions test the faith of even the die-hardest sci-fi fan, these novels do what science fiction is supposed to do, which is the sense of the wonderful and amazing in Awakening readers. ”And Karen G. Way laments that the zeal and determination of the Richmond amateur hobbyist building a matter transmitter with a few wires and coils in the basement is an innocence of science fiction that is lost forever is.

bibliography

All titles are collaborations with Leigh Richmond.

Novels
  • Where I Wasn't Going (1963, also called Challenge the Hellmaker , 1976)
  • Shock Wave (1967)
    • English: Shock wave in the cosmos. Moewig (Terra Nova # 49), 1969.
  • The Lost Millennium (1967, also as Siva ! , 1979)
    • German: The lost millennium. Translated by Antonius Linneborn. Michaels-Verlag, Peiting 1998, ISBN 3-89539-292-8 .
  • Phoenix Ship (1969)
  • Gallagher's Glacier (1970)
  • The Probability Corner (1977)
  • Phase Two (1979)
collection
  • Positive Charge (1970)
Willy Shorts (short story series)
  • Shortsite (1964)
  • I, BEM (1964)
  • Short stack (1964)
  • Shorts Wing (1970)
Short stories
  • Poppa Needs Shorts (1964)
  • The Pie-Duddle Puddle (1964)
  • Gallagher's Glacier (1964)
  • M'Lord Is the Shepherd (1965)
  • Cows Can't Eat Grass (1967)
  • "If the Sabot Fits ..." (1968)
  • Antalogia (1973)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ While many of the discoveries may strain the credulity of even the most devoted science fiction fan, these novels remain true to the central goal of science fiction: to instill a sense of wonder in its readers. Stephen H. Goldman: Richmond, Walt and Leigh . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 386.
  2. ^ Karen G. Way: Richmond, Walt and Leigh . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, p. 665.
personal data
SURNAME Richmond, Walt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richmond, Walter Forbes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1977
Place of death Merritt Island , Florida