William E. Cochrane

William Eugene Cochrane (born January 30, 1926 in Hollywood , California ; died March 4, 1993 in San Luis Obispo , California) was an American science fiction writer.

Cochrane published his first story How High on the Ladder? 1950 under the pseudonym Leo Paige . It was not until 20 years later that another story appeared, A Little Edge , now under the name S. Kye Bolt , inspired by his work at Douglas Aircraft and their Skybolt air-to-air missile , which he also used in the following years. From 1973 he published under his own name. The stories written as S. Kye Bolt and the novel Solo Kill (1977) are space operas . The short stories appeared in Analog magazine .

The novel Class Six Climb , published in 1980, is about "tree climbers" who climb giant, kilometer-high trees on a distant planet.

bibliography

Novels

• Solo Kill (1977; as S. Kye Boult)
• Class Six Climb (3 parts in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1979  ff.)

Short stories

1950:

• How high on the ladder? (1950, in: Fantasy Book, Vol. 2, No. 1 ; as Leo Paige)

1971:

• The Habitat Manager (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, June 1971 ; as S. Kye Boult)
  • German: The Habitat Manager. Translated by Maria Castro. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue. Heyne SF&F # 4697, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04279-4 .
• A Little Edge (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, July 1971 ; as S. Kye Boult)

1972:

• Solo Kill (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, May 1972 ; as S. Kye Boult)
• Collision Course (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, July 1972 ; as S. Kye Boult)

1973:

• Earthquake (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, April 1973 )
• The Safety Engineer (1973, in: Stephen Goldin (Ed.): The Alien Condition ; as S. Kye Boult)
• Whalekiller Gray (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, October 1973 )

1974:

• The Horus Errand (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, January 1974 )

1976:

• Weather War (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, September 1976 )

1977:

• Nuclear Run (in: Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact, February 1977 )
• Minster West (in: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Fall 1977 )

1992:

• The Walking Hills (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July 1992 )

did not show up:

• Cargo Run (in: Harlan Ellison (Ed.): The Last Dangerous Visions ; as S. Kye Boult)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 103.
• John Clute : Cochrane, William E. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.

Web links

• William E. Cochrane in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• William E. Cochrane in the Bibliography of German Science Fiction ( Stories )
• William E. Cochrane in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Literature by and about William E. Cochrane in the WorldCat bibliographic database