Wyman Guin

Wyman Woods Guin (born March 1, 1915 in Wanette , Oklahoma ; died February 19, 1989 in Montclair , New Jersey ) was an American science fiction writer.

Life

Guin was the son of Joel Guin and Marie, nee Menasco. From 1938 he worked for the pharmaceutical company Lakeside Laboratories in Milwaukee , initially as a pharmaceutical technician, then as an advertising copywriter, advertising manager and finally as a department head for marketing. From 1962 to 1964 he was deputy director at Medical Television Communications and from 1964 head of project planning at LW Erollch & Co / Intercon International .

Guin married Jean Adolph in 1939, with whom he had two children. After Jean Guin's death in 1955, he married Valerie Carlson in 1956, with whom he had three more children.

As a sideline, Guin wrote science fiction and in 1950 his first short story Trigger Tide appeared in Astounding . It was followed in 1951 by the story Beyond Bedlam in Galaxy , where a large part of his short stories should appear. Beyond Bedlam describes a society of the future in which psychological conflicts are eliminated through a drug-induced split personality, but also passion and creativity. Guin wrote a novel ( The Standing Joy , 1969), but is mainly valued for his eight short stories, which were collected in Living Way Out in 1967 .

In 2013, Guin was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for unjustly forgotten authors.

bibliography

novel

• The Standing Joy (1969)

collection

• Living Way Out (1967, also as Beyond Bedlam , 1973)

Short stories

• Trigger Tide (1950, also as Norman Menasco)
• Beyond Bedlam (1951)
  • German: Beyond all madness. In: Werner Fuchs (Ed.): Light and shadow years. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5838, 1986, ISBN 3-426-05838-3 .
• My Darling Hecate (1953)
• The Root and the Ring (1954)
• Volpla (1956)
  • German: Volpla glider. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction # 12. Moewig, 1959. Also as Exodus in: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 74. Ullstein 2000 # 148 (3544), 1978, ISBN 3-548-03544-2 .
• The Delegate from Guapanga (1964)
  • English: The envoy from Guapanga. In: Isaac Asimov , Martin H. Greenberg (Ed.): Wahltag 2090. Bastei Lübbe Paperback # 28181, 1989, ISBN 3-404-28181-0 .
• A Man of the Renaissance (1964)
• The Evidence for Whooping Cranes (1973)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 178.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 
• John Clute : Guin, Wyman. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• 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 , p. 924 f.
• Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , p. 116.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 195.
• Franz Rottensteiner : Guin, Wyman (Woods) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 343 f.

Web links

• Works by Guin, Wyman in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
• Wyman Guin in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Wyman Guin in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Wyman Guin at Open Library
• Wyman Guin in Fantastic Fiction (English)