Colin Kapp
Colin Kapp (1928 – 3 August 2007) was a British science fiction author.
A contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers.
Works
- Search for the sun! (1982) (also published as Cageworld)
- The Lost worlds of Cronus (1982)
- The Tyrant of Hades (1984)
- Star Search (1984)
Chaos series
Standalone novels
- The Dark Mind (1964) (also published as Transfinite Man)
- The Wizard of Anharitte (1973)
- The Survival Game (1976)
- Manalone (1977)
- The Ion War (1978)
- The Timewinders (1980)
Short stories
Unorthodox Engineers
- "The Railways Up on Cannis" (1959)
- "The Subways of Tazoo" (1964)
- "The Pen and the Dark" (1966)
- "Getaway from Getawehi" (1969)
- "The Black Hole of Negrav" (1975)
Collected in The Unorthodox Engineers (1979)
Other stories
- "Breaking Point" (1959)
- "Survival Problem" (1959)
- "Lambda I" (1962)
- "The Night-Flame" (1964)
- "Hunger Over Sweet Waters" (1965)
- "Ambassador to Verdammt" (1967)
- "The Imagination Trap" (1967)
- "The Cloudbuilders" (1968)
- "I Bring You Hands" (1968)
- "Gottlos" (1969) – notable for having inspired among others Steve Jackson's tank warfare game Ogre[1]
- "The Teacher" (1969)
- "Letter from an Unknown Genius" (1971)
- "What the Thunder Said" (1972)
- "Which Way Do I Go For Jericho?" (1972)
- "The Old King's Answers" (1973)
- "Crimescan" (1973)
- "What The Thunder Said" (1973)
- "Mephisto and the Ion Explorer" (1974)
- "War of the Wastelife" (1974)
- "Cassius and the Mind-Jaunt" (1975)
- "Something in the City" (1984)
- "An Alternative to Salt" (1986)
References
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1929 |
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3 August 2007 |
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