Chad Oliver

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Chad Oliver
Occupation	Writer, Anthropologist, Professor
Nationality	American
Writing period	1940s-1980s
Genres	Science fiction, Western
Influenced Bruce Sterling, Howard Waldrop, Lewis Shiner

Symmes Chadwick Oliver (30 March 1928–9 August 1993) was an award winning science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He was also one of the founders of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.

Bibliography

Novels

• Mists of Dawn (1952)
• Shadows in the Sun (1954)
• The Winds of Time (1956)
• Unearthly Neighbors (1960)
• The Wolf is My Brother
• The Shores of Another Sea (1971)
• Giants in the Dust (1976)
• Broken Eagle (1989)
• The Cannibal Owl (1994)

Collections

• Another Kind (1955)
• The Edge of Forever (1971)
• A Star Above and Other Stories (2003)
• Far from This Earth and Other Stories (2003)

Selected Short Fiction

• Transfusion (1959)

[edit] External links

• Chad Oliver at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• A comprehensive bibliography of Chad Oliver, including two interviews.