Tom Godwin
Tom Godwin (1915–1980) was an American science fiction author. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable example of the mid-1950s science fiction genre.
Bibliography
Novels
Ragnarok series:
Others:
- Beyond Another Sun (Curtis, 1971)
Short stories
- "The Gulf Between" in Astounding, October 1953
- "Mother of Invention" in Astounding, December 1953
- "The Greater Thing" in Astounding, February 1954
- "The Cold Equations" in Astounding, August 1954
- "No Species Alone" in Universe, November 1954
- "You Created Us" in Fantastic Universe, October 1955
- "The Barbarians" in If, December 1955
- "Operation Opera" in Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1956
- "Brain Teaser" in If, October 1956
- "Too Soon to Die" (basis for his novel The Survivors) in Venture, July 1957
- "The Harvest" in Venture, July 1957
- "The Last Victory" in If, August 1957
- "The Nothing Equation" in Amazing, December 1957
- "The Wild Ones" in Science Fiction Stories, January 1958
- "My Brother" The Ape" in Amazing, January 1958
- "Cry From a Far Planet" in Amazing, September 1958
- "A Place Beyond the Stars" in Super Science Fiction, February 1959
- "Empathy" in Fantastic, October 1959
- "The Helpful Hand of God" in Analog, December 1961
- "...and Devious the Line of Duty" in Analog, December 1962
- "Desert Execution" in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, July 1967
- "The Gentle Captive" in the original story anthology Signs and Wonders (1972)
- "We'll Walk Again the Moonlight" in the anthology Crisis (1974)
- "Backfire" in Ed McBaines 87th Precinct Mystery Magazine, April 1975
- "The Steel Guardian" in Antaeus, Spring/Summer 1977
- "Social Blunder" in Amazing, July 1977
- "Before Willows Ever Walked" in Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1980
Collections
The following stories are collected in the book The Cold Equations & Other Stories ed. Eric Flint (Baen Books, 2004):
- "The Survivors" • novel
- "The Harvest" • shortstory
- "Brain Teaser" • shortstory
- "Mother of Invention" • novella
- "...and Devious the Line of Duty" • novelette
- "Empathy" • novelette
- "No Species Alone" • novelette
- "The Gulf Between" • novella
- "The Cold Equations" • novelette
External links
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1915 |
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1980 |
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