Ward Moore

Joseph Ward Moore (born August 10, 1903 in Madison , New Jersey , † January 28, 1978 in Pacific Grove , California ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Joseph Ward Moore grew up in Madison , New Jersey . He made an early decision to become a writer. After initially working as a bookseller in New York, he lived for some time in Chicago , Illinois and, from 1929, near Los Angeles , California . He was employed by the Federal Writers' Project from 1937 to 1940 before publishing his first novel, Breathe the Air Again , in 1942 . In this novel, Moore deals with the labor disputes during the Great Depression. His next novel, Greener Than You Think, is about how a new type of fertilizer leads to unbridled grass growth until the whole world is overgrown with grass. His greatest success was in 1953 that today in the print located Bring the Jubilee (dt. The large south ), a classic of the alternative world literature , in which the southern states of the American Civil War win. This success his later books were unable to continue, but its 1953 and 1954 published short stories Lot and Lot's Wife served as a template for the film Panic in the Year Zero (1962, dt. Panic in Year Zero ), and his work continues to exert a great influence on other science fiction writers. Ward Moore died in California on January 28, 1978.

bibliography

Novels

• Breathe the Air Again (1942)
• Greener Than You Think (1947)
  • German: It is so green. Translated by Bernd W. Holzrichter. Moewig Science Fiction # 3510, 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3510-6 .
• Bring the Jubilee (1953)
  • German: The great south. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3760, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30663-5 .
• Joyleg (1962, with Avram Davidson)
• Caduceus Wild (1959, 1978, with Robert Bradford)
• Transient (1960, 2013)

Short stories

• Peacebringer (1950, also as Sword of Peace )
• Flying Dutchman (1951)
• We, The People (1952)
• Bring the Jubilee (1952)
• Measure of a Man (1953)
• Lot (1953, also called Panic in the Year Zero , 1995)
  • German: Lot. In: Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs (Hrsg.): The Fifties I. Hohenheim (Edition SF in Hohenheim Verlag), 1981, ISBN 3-8147-0010-4 .
• Lot's Daughter (1954)
• Rx Jupiter Save Us (1954)
• Dominions Beyond (1954, also as The Second Trip to Mars )
  • German: God Save the Queen. In: Wulf Bergner (Ed.): The uprising of the Kryonauts. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3454), 1975, ISBN 3-453-30338-5 .
• The Mysterious Milkman of Bishop Street (1955)
• Caution Advisable (1955)
• In Working Order (1955)
• Old Story (1955)
• No Man Pursueth (1956)
• The Rewrite Man (1956)
• Adjustment (1957)
• The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl (1960)
• It Becomes Necessary (1961)
• Rebel (1962)
• Frank Merriwell in the White House (1973)
  • English: Frank Merriwell in the White House. 1989.
• The Boy Who Spoke Cat (1973)
• Durance (1975)
• Wish Fiddle (1975)
• A Class with Dr. Chang (1976)
• Conversation Piece (1978)
• With Mingled Feelings of Anticipation and Apprehension the Emigrants Leave Their Native Earth for a Far-Off Destination (1980)
  • German: With mixed feelings of anticipation and fear, the emigrants set off from their native soil to a distant destination. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): Try to remember. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6726), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6726-1 .

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 301 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 739 f.
• John Clute , Peter Nicholls : Moore, Ward. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated November 22, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 263.
• Edgar L. Chapman: Moore, Ward . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 320 f.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , pp. 1004 f.
• Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , pp. 191 f.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 318.
• Walter E. Meyers: Moore, Ward . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 574 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ward Moore in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ward Moore in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by Moore, Ward in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
• Ward Moore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Ward Moore at Open Library
• Ward Moore in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Moore, Joseph Ward 1903-1978 , Monterey County Genealogy Message Board obituary notice (accessed June 6, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Person Detail: Ward Moore ( English ) New York State Literary Tree. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
2. ^ Ward Moore . phantastik-couch.de. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Author Biography and Bibliography - Ward Moore ( English ) scifi.com. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
4. ^ ^{A b} Dictionary of Literary Biography on Ward Moore ( English ) Dictionary of Literary Biography. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
5. ↑ SB Tenz: Ward Moore: The Great South . phantastik-couch.de. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
6. ↑ Lot & Lot's Daughter by Ward Moore ( English ) Tachyon Publications. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.