G. Harry Stine

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G. Harry Stine (March 26, 1928 - November 2, 1997) is widely regarded as the father of model rocketry. Although he did not invent the hobby – that distinction goes to Orville Carlisle – he popularized it and made it into an organized hobby. He founded the National Association of Rocketry, serving as its president for a time, and authored the authoritative text Handbook of Model Rocketry. He also helped found the first firm to sell model rocket kits to the public. In addition to the above mentioned handbook, Stine also prepared numerous other technical and science fiction publications.

He wrote science fiction under the name Lee Correy, which included a Star Trek novel called The Abode of Life and the original novel Shuttle Down. Under his own name, he was a regular science-fact columnist for Astounding and its later successor Analog. Stine would also occasionally advise Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda in their work for Star Trek: the Next Generation as technical artists and advisors, and was credited in Star Trek: the Next Generation Technical Manual for that assistance.

In 1957 he gained some minor prominence as a rocketry expert in the United States after the launch of Sputnik. His book Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority was published a month before the unveiling of the USSR's first satellite, and included the prophetic teaser "For the first time since the dawn of history, the Earth is going to have more than one moon. This is due to happen within the next few months—or it may have already happened even at the time you are reading this."^[1]

He died in Phoenix, Arizona of an apparent stroke^[2].

[edit] Bibliography

(fiction, paperback, as Lee Correy)
Star Driver, Del Rey, July 1980
Shuttle Down, Del Rey, April 1981
Space Doctor, Del Rey, June 1981
The Abode of Life, Pocket Science Fiction, May 1982
A Matter of Metalaw, DAW Science Fiction, October 1986
Manna, DAW Science Fiction, January 1984

(fiction, paperback, as G.Harry Stine)
Warbots, Pinnacle Science Fiction, May 1988
Warbots #2: Operation Steel Band, Pinnacle Science Fiction, July 1988
Warbots #3: The Bastaard Rebellion, Pinnacle Science Fiction, September 1988
Warbots #4 Sierra Madre, Pinnacle Science Fiction, November 1988
Warbots #5: Operation High Dragon, Pinnacle Science Fiction, January 1989
Warbots #6: The Lost Battalion, Pinnacle Science Fiction, April 1989
Warbots #7: Operation Iron Fist, Pinnacle Science Fiction, August 1990
Warbots #8: Force of Arms, Pinnacle Science Fiction, March 1990
Warbots #9: Blood Siege, Pinnacle Science Fiction, Septembet 1990
Warbots #10: Guts and Glory, Pinnacle Science Fiction, June 1991
Warbots #11: Warrior Shield, Pinnacle Science Fiction, February 1992
Warbots #12: Judgement Day, Pinnacle Science Fiction, September 1992
Starsea Invaders: First Action, New American Library, August 1993
Starsea Invaders: Second Contact, New American Library, March 1994
Starsea Invaders: Third Encounter, New American Library, May 1995

(fact, paperback, as G. Garry Stine)
The Handbook of Model Rocketry,Follet Publishing, 1965
The Third Industrial Revolution, Ace Science Fiction, May 1979
The Space Enterprise, Ace Science, August 1980
Space Power, Ace Science, September 1981
The Silicon Gods, Dell, October 1984