Richard C. Meredith
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Richard Carlton Meredith (1937 – 1979), also known as Richard C. Meredith, was a science fiction author.
Meredith's works take up with considerable originality many familiar SF themes: A human Galactic Empire and its struggle with a non-human rival ("We All Died at Breakaway Station") or with independence-seeking human subjects ("The Sky Is Filled with Ships"); a theocratic dictatorship, nuclear and biological warfare, and the effort to change history by time travel ("Run, Come See Jerusalem!"); or the "sidewise" travel into a alternate histories and the savage struggle for control over a multitude of divergent timelines (The "Timeliner" trilogy).
Whatever the specific situation, Meredith's protagonists tend to be highly motivated and devoted people, wholeheartedly taking up Earth- or Universe- shaking Causes to which they give their all - and often eventually discovering that they had been duped into serving an evil cause, or that an action taken with the best of intentions actually makes a bad situation even worse. A reader opening a Meredith book can by no means count on a happy end - indeed, some of the books can be classed as dystopias. At best, Meredith's protagonists need to rest content with a partial or conditional victory, the merely temporary aversion of disaster.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels and Novellas
- The Timeliner trilogy:
- At the Narrow Passage (1973)
- No Brother, No Friend (1976)
- Vestiges of Time (1978)
- We All Died at Breakaway Station (1968 in Amazing Stories, published as a full novel in 1969)
- The Sky Is Filled with Ships (1969)
- Run, Come See Jerusalem! (1976)
- The Awakening (1979)
[edit] Short stories
- "Choice of Weapons" (1966)
- "To the War is Gone" (1966)
- "The Fifth Columbiad" (1966)
- "The Longest Voyage" (1966)
- "Hired Man" (1970)
- "Earthcoming" (1970)
- "Time of Sending" (1978)
- "Cold the Stars are, Cold the Earth" (1978)
