Wilson Tucker

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Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (born November 23, 1914 in Deer Creek , Illinois ; died October 6, 2006 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ) was an American crime novel and science fiction writer and a distinguished member of the Science fiction fandom .

biography

Arthur Wilson Tucker was sent to an orphanage with his brother in 1926 because his mother had died and the father, a stage manager at various circus companies, was unable to raise his sons. After four years, Tucker fled. From 1931 he worked as a lighting technician and projectionist in Bloomington , with two interruptions during which he worked as an electrician for Illinois State University and for 20th Century Fox . In 1972 he retired.

Tucker came into contact with science fiction in 1932 . During this decade he began to publish the science fiction magazine The Planetoid . From 1938 to 1975 he published the magazine Le Zombie , which comprised more than sixty issues. He was firmly rooted in SF fandom throughout his life, his first novel The Chinese Doll was then also a crime thriller that takes place in the world of SF fans.

In 1941 Tucker published his first short story, Interstellar Way Station . Between 1941 and 1979 he wrote 25 SF short stories. He also began writing novels, including eleven detective novels and a dozen SF novels.

Tucker emerged primarily in the 1950s with major SF novels, of which The Long Loud Silence and The Year of the Quiet Sun became best known. With The Lincoln Hunters , Tucker created an SF novel that is counted among the classics of time travel literature.

Tucker coined some terms that are still used today. This includes space opera (dt. Space opera ). Also known is his type of Tuckerization , where he uses the names of fans and friends in his works.

Tucker had married Mary Joesting in 1937 and had a son and daughter with her. The marriage ended in divorce in 1942. In 1953 he married Fern Delores Brooks, with whom he had three sons. A few months after his wife's death in June 2006, Tucker died at the age of 91.

Awards

bibliography

Novels
  • The Chinese Doll (1946)
  • To Keep or Kill (1947)
  • The Dove (1948)
  • The Stalking Man (1949)
  • Red Herring (1951)
  • The City in the Sea (1951)
    • German: The city in the sea. Moewig (Terra special volume # 68), 1963.
  • The Long Loud Silence (1952, revised 1969)
  • The Time Masters (1953, revised 1972)
  • Wild Talent (1953, also as Man from Tomorrow , 1955)
    • German: The uncanny. Translated by Günter Hehemann. Moewig (Terra special volume # 15), 1959. Also as: secret weapon human. Translated by Bodo Baumann. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 64 (3030)), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03030-0 .
  • Time Bomb (1955, also as Tomorrow Plus X , 1957)
    • German: The time bomb. Translated by Peter Mathys. Moewig (Terra special volume # 29), 1960. Also called: time bomb. Translated by Otto Kuehn and Peter Mathys. Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 # 92 (3140)), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03140-4 .
  • The Man in My Grave (1956)
  • The Hired Target (1957)
  • The Lincoln Hunters (1958)
    • English: The Lincoln Hunter. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4105, 1984, ISBN 3-453-31065-9 .
  • To the Tombaugh Station (1960)
    • English: The last flight of the Xanthus. Moewig (Terra special volume # 48) 1961.
  • Last Stop (1963)
  • A Procession of the Damned (1965)
  • The Warlock (1967)
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970)
  • This Witch (1971)
  • Ice and Iron (1974)
  • Resurrection Days (1981)
Collections
  • The Science-Fiction Subtreasury (1954, also as Time: X , 1955)
  • The Best of Wilson Tucker (1982)
Short stories
  • Letter: Report of the 196th Convention (1934, as Hoy Ping Pong)
  • The Monstrosity: (A True Expense) (1935, as Hoy Ping Pong)
  • Interstellar Way Station (1941)
  • Gentlemen — The Queen! (1942)
  • If I Werewolf (Part 2 of 7, 1942, as Jack F. Speer)
  • Joe Fann Into Space (1942)
  • The Princess of Detroit (1942)
  • That Mysterious Bomb Raid (1942)
  • Prison Planet (1942)
  • Exit (1943)
  • Miraculous Fluid (1943)
  • The Other (1944, with Dorothy Les Tina, as Sanford Vaid)
  • The Job Is Ended (1950)
  • The Tourist Trade (1951)
    • German: Tourism is flourishing. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 14. Pabel, 1958.
  • My Brother's Wife (1951)
  • The Visitors ... (1951)
  • Voices at Night (1951)
  • The Wayfaring Strangers (1952)
  • To a Ripe Old Age (1952)
  • The Mountaineer (1953)
  • Able to Zebra (1953)
  • The Street Walker (1954)
  • Home Is Where the Wreck Is (1954)
  • “MCMLV” (1954)
  • King of the Planet (1959)
    • English: The King of the Planet. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Galaxy 9. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3103, 1967.
  • To the Tombaugh Station (1960)
  • Small Voice (1962)
  • The Recon Man (1965)
  • Time Exposures (1971)
  • The Long Loud Silence (Chapter 13) (1975)
  • The Near-Zero Crime Rate on JJ Avenue (1978)
Non-fiction
  • Yearbook of Science, Weird and Fantasy Fiction - 1938 (1939)
  • 1939 Yearbook of Science, Weird and Fantasy Fiction (1940, with Damon Knight, Harry Warner Jr., and Jane Tucker)
  • The Neo-Fan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom (1973)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn space-ship yarn, or world-saving for that matter, we offer "space opera." In: Le Zombie , January 1941. See Jeff Prucher: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8 , p. 205.
  2. ^ Jeff Prucher: Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8 , pp. 251 f.
personal data
SURNAME Tucker, Wilson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tucker, Arthur Wilson (full name); Tucker, Arthur (maiden name); Tucker, Bob (alternative spelling); Hoy Ping Pong (pseudonym); Montrose, Sir Aubrey (pen name); Vaid, Sanford (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Deer Creek , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2006
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Florida