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:

• The Survivors (Gnome Press, 1958; also known as Space Prison, Pyramid Books, 1960)
• The Space Barbarians (Pyramid Books, 1964)

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

• Tom Godwin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by Tom Godwin at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Tom Godwin at Internet Archive