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Damon Knight

(Damon Francis Knight)
USA  (1922 - 2002)
(Husband of Kate Wilhelm)
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About Damon Knight
Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.
 
Series contributed to
Nebula Award Stories 1
 
Anthologies edited
A Century of Science FictionFirst FlightA Century of Great Short Science Fiction NovelsTomorrow X 4
13 French Science Fiction StoriesBeyond TomorrowThe Dark SideCities of Wonder
Orbit 1Orbit 2Science Fiction InventionsThe Shape of Things
Worlds to Come: Nine Science Fiction AdventuresThe Metal SmileOrbit 3Orbit 4
Towards InfinityOne Hundred Years of Science FictionOrbit 5Orbit 6
Orbit 7Orbit 8Dimension XOrbit 9
A Pocketful of StarsPerchance to DreamA Science Fiction ArgosyOrbit 10
Orbit 11The Golden RoadOrbit 12Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Elsewhere X 3Orbit 13Orbit 14Orbit 15
A Shocking ThingOrbit 16Orbit 18Best from Orbit One to Ten
Orbit 19Science Fiction of the ThirtiesOrbit 20Science Fiction of the 40s
First ContactWestern Classics from the Great PulpsOrbit 21First Voyages
The Clarion AwardsWesterns of the 40's: Classics from the Great Pulps
 
Non fiction
Charles FortTurning Points: Essays on the Art of Science FictionCreating Short FictionIn Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction
 
Anthologies containing stories by Damon Knight
ThingsThe Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th SeriesThree from Out There13 Great Stories of Science Fiction
Fifty Short Science Fiction TalesSpectrum 4An ABC of Science FictionScience Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction
Tomorrow's ChildrenDangerous Visions 2Science Fiction Horizons No. 1The Others
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder: Exploring the Craft of Science FictionThe Penguin Science Fiction OmnibusModern Science FictionThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 6
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short StoriesThe End of Summer: Science Fiction of the FiftiesScience Fiction of the FiftiesAliens!
The Golden Age of Science FictionThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 11The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories
Universe 14Great Science Fiction of the 20th CenturyMasters of Darkness 2Christmas Forever
Invaders!The Norton Book of Science FictionBruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your MindModern Classics of Fantasy
Nebula Awards 30TimegatesYear's Best SF 2Immortals
The Playboy Book of Science FictionThe Young Oxford Book of AliensTechnohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue
 
Short stories
Not with a Bang (1949)
To Serve Man (1950)
Ask Me Anything (1951)
Cabin Boy (1951)
The Analogues (1952)
Beachcomber (1952)
Ticket to Anywhere (1952)
Anachron (1953)
Babel II (1953)
Four in One (1953)
Special Delivery (1953)
Rule Golden [short story] (1954)
The Country of the Kind (1955)
You're Another (1955)
Extempore (1956)
The Last Word (1956)
Stranger Station (1956)
The Dying Man (1957)
The Enemy (1957)
An Eye for a What? (1957)
Be My Guest (1958)
Eripmav (1958)
Idiot Stick (1958)
Thing of Beauty (1958)
The Handler (1960)
Time Enough (1960)
The Big Pat Boom (1963)
God's Nose [short story] (1964)
Maid to Measure (1964)
Shall the Dust Praise Thee? (1967)
Masks (1968)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
I See You (1976)Hugo (nominee)
Forever (1981)
O (1983)
Strangers on Paradise (1986)
Not a Creature (1993)
Fortyday (1994)
Life Edit (1996)
Double Meaning [short story]
In the Beginning


Awards
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1969) : Masks
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1969) : Masks
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1977) : I See You


Damon Knight recommends
The Book of Ptath
The Book of Ptath (1947)
A E van Vogt
"Van Vogt's work has a raw power that has never been equalled in science fiction."
The Blue Star
The Blue Star (1952)
Fletcher Pratt
"A magnificent job of writing... a gem-perfect example of a branch of pure fantasy so rare nowadays."
Conjure Wife
Conjure Wife (1953)
Fritz Leiber
"Easily the most frightening (and necessarily) the most thoroughly convincing of all modern horror stories...Leiber has never written anything better."
The End of Eternity
The End of Eternity (1955)
Isaac Asimov
"Monumentally good ideas...fascinating."
Dangerous Visions 1
Dangerous Visions 1 (1967)
Harlan Ellison
"Gigantic, exuberant, startling, vital, meaningful."
Dreamsnake
Dreamsnake (1978)
Vonda N McIntyre
"One of the best and brightest of the new science fiction writers."
Systemic Shock
Systemic Shock (1981)
(Quantrill, book 1)
Dean Ing
"Terrifyingly plausible."
Meet Me in the Moon Room
Meet Me in the Moon Room (2001)
Ray Vukcevich
"What other writer could make you start laughing halfway down the first page of a story about a man putting on a sweater? Thurber maybe, a long time ago. Buy this book."



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