The Compleat Fiction by M. C. Pease (2019)
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Overview: M. C. Pease published about 20 stories between 1949 and 1957, then fell silent. Apparently he kept writing, without success: at any rate. There’s a report (second-hand, or third hand actually) from a former F&SF slushreader of seeing in the slush a story from Pease as late as the early ’70s. Pease’s main market was Astounding, and secondarily Robert A. W. Lowndes’ magazines, though he also had pieces in If, Beyond, Fantastic Universe, and Science Fiction Adventures.
So, who was Pease, really? Marshall Carleton Pease III (1920-2001). He had a B. A. from Yale in Chemistry, and an M. A. from Princeton, and eventually a Ph. D., not sure from where. Though his degrees were in Chemistry, his work was in electronics, beginning with radar countermeasures and ending up working at SRI in Computer Science, particularly early research into parallel processing: interesting stuff (to me, anyway, as that’s my field). He published lots of scientific papers and at least one textbook. His father was a prominent pediatrician. The really cool detail is a letter from John W. Campbell to Isaac Asimov, suggesting he write a story about an idea that Pease had had but felt he couldn’t do justice to. Asimov never wrote the story.
Genre:Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Devious Weapon
Convergence to Death
Reversion
City of the Phoenix
Ascent into Chaos
Love Thy Neighbor
Generals Help Themselves
The Final Answer
A Little Pile
Temple of Despair
The Way of Decision
This One Problem
Eight Seconds
Peace Agent
Ripeness
Path of Darkness
Telestassis
A Prideful Thing
Unlucky Chance
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