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Stanley Schmidt

(1944 - )

About Stanley Schmidt

Stanley Schmidt is a physicist and has been the editor of Analog magazine since 1978. He is a perennial nominee for the Best Editor Hugo Award and the author of five novels. He lives in upstate New York.

Series

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1. The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
2. Lifeboat Earth (1978)

Novels

Newton and the Quasi-Apple (1975)
Tweedlioop (1986)
Argonaut (2002)

Collections

Generation Gap: And Other Stories (2002)

Series contributed to

Analog
Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology (1981)
Analog Yearbook II (1981)
Analog's Children of the Future (1982)
Analog Readers Choice (1982)
Analog's Lighter Side (1983)
Aliens from Analog (1983)
Analog Writers' Choice (1983)
Analog Writers' Choice Volume 2 (1984)

Anthologies edited

War and Peace: Possible Futures from Analog (1983)
Unknown (1988)
Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (1989)
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998) (with Gardner Dozois)
Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales From Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000 - 2010 (2011)

Non fiction

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1984)
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (1996) (with Robert Zubrin)
Aliens and Alien Societies: A writer's guide to creating extraterrestial life-forms (1996) (with Ben Bova)
Which Way to the Future?: Collected Essays from Analog (2001)

Anthologies containing stories by Stanley Schmidt

Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984)
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993)
Christmas Forever (1993)

Short stories

	May the Best Man Win (1971)
	His Loyal Opposition (1976)
	Panic (1979)
	Floodgate (1988)
	Not Even a Chimney (1993)
	Good Intentions (1999) (with Jack McDevitt)		Nebula (nominee)
	Generation Gap [short story] (2000)		Nebula (nominee)

Awards

	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (2000) : Good Intentions
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (2001) : Generation Gap [short story]

Stanley Schmidt recommends

David's Sling (1988) Marc Stiegler "Should be required reading for all politicians."	The Leaves of October (1988) (Scattered Worlds) Don Sakers "Uniquely striking and beautifully handled."	Primary Inversion (1995) (Skolian Empire, book 1) Catherine Asaro "An impressive first novel... Really new science that just might be possible."

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