Eight Novels and Stories by Walt & Leigh Richmond
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Overview: Walt Richmond (1922-1977) US author and research scientist whose fiction was written exclusively in collaboration with his wife, Leigh Richmond.
Leigh Richmond (1911-1995) US author who began publishing with Prologue to an Analogue (June 1961 Analog; 2009 ebook). Her further stories and her several sf novels were mostly written and published in collaboration with her husband, Walt Richmond; three novels were revised by her after his death. Almost all their work together expressed a sense – one formally presented by the Centric Foundation which they founded and directed – that scientific breakthroughs could be made by young minds freed of the bureaucratic artifices of orthodox scientific thinking; unfortunately, overloaded Space-Opera plotting did little to make their novels convincing emblems of this new clarity, and the exaggerated individualism they expressed seemed less mould-breaking than nostalgic. They published frequently in Analog.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Gallaher’s Glacier SS (Analog Nov. 1964)
Gallagher’s Glacier later (1970) was expanded from a 1964 short story from Analog November 1964.
Gallagher’s Glacier (1970) Novel
Gallaghers Glacier is expanded from a 1964 short story from Analog.
In the cold corrupt system of the colony mining worlds, one man’s life and liberty aren’t worth much; the vital spacelanes are rigidly controlled, and it’s as much as your life is worth to go against the system. But there is one man with both the unbroken spirit and the technological mastery to open the lanes and free his fellow men from tyranny. And on grim Stellamira, N.N. Gallagher builds the first resistance. His materials: downtrodden colonists with nothing left to lose, and worlds to gain; a clever, rebellious young madame and her "entourage;" a native starship captain with a lot to learn, and a battlefield to learn it on; and a great ice-asteroid that engineering genius has transformed into a ship called GALLAGHER’S GLACIER.
Phoenix Ship (1969)
Earth had everything going for it. Not only was the mother planet top dog in the solar system—her weak colonies hanging on by the skin of their teeth had to heed her every whim.
Her spaceships were tops; her armament invincible; and she had just developed a new method of computerized schooling that seemed certain to develop an army of superminds to do Earth’s bidding.
Yet, if all this was truly so, then how was it that the pesky little mining ships of the poorest colonial offshoot of all—the barren rocks of the Asteroid Belt —had beaten Earth’s fleet to a frazzle and her homemade strategists were outthinking the best of the whole High Earth command?
Poppa Needs Shorts (1964) SS
This story follows the logic and thought patterns of a four year old, as he tries to make sense of the world with no experience, and little help from his parents and big brother. Even that little is inadvertently misguided. All he can do to learn what "shorts" really are is by his own experimentation, and listening to the discussions of the unexpected results. He becomes a hero by doing exactly the right thing, having arrived at the conclusions that guided his actions by precisely the wrong reasons!
Positive Charge (1970) SSC
Positive Charge is a collection of eight short stories by this husband-wife writing team. One was published in Galaxy, all the rest in Analog. Contents: M’lord is the Shepherd, If the Sabot Fits, Cows Can’t Eat Grass, Shorts Wing, Shortstack, Shortsite, I BEM & Prologue to an Analogue. Three of the stories feature Willy Short, inventor extraordinaire.
The Lost Millenium (1987)
THE TEN THOUSAND YEAR BLACKOUT "Once you know of the solar tap, all the fictions of history fall out, and the real facts begin to fit into place." The solar tap was a new power source, involving the use of the Earth as an electric motor that could take unlimited energy from the ionosphere for man’s use. It could also explain away all the discrepancies of historical theory and show what was thought to be myth was actually the way things were–after the cataclysmic short circuit of a much earlier solar tap by a much earlier race of men. And the solar tap could also bring to light the terrible dangers that faced today’s humanity–as the remnants of the old race returned to survey their destructive handiwork.
Where I Wasn’t Going (Analog, 1963)
"The Spaceman’s Lament" concerned a man who wound up where he wasn’t going … but the men on Space Station One knew they weren’t going anywhere. Until Confusion set in….
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