Rick Raphael (February 20, 1919 – January 4, 1994) was an American journalist and science fiction author.^[1]

He published his first short story, "A Filbert Is a Nut", in the November 1959 issue of Astounding.^[2]

In 1964, his short story "Code Three" was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story, as well as "Once a Cop" in 1965. These two stories were expanded into his best known work, the fix-up novel Code Three, which was published in 1966.^[1]

In the early 1980s, he published two more novels. Raphael died in 1994.^[1]

In 2020, his legacy was honored with the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.^[3]

• Code Three (Simon & Schuster / Gollancz, 1966)
• The Defector (Doubleday, 1980)
• The President Must Die (W. W. Norton, 1981)

• "Code Three" (in Analog, February 1963)
• "Once a Cop" (in Analog, May 1964)
• The Thirst Quenchers (Gollancz, 1965). Includes: "The Mailman Cometh", "Guttersnipe", "The Thirst Quenchers", and "Odd Man In".
• The Thirst Quenchers and Three Other Science Fiction Tales (2010). Includes: "Make Mine Homogenized", "The Thirst Quenchers", "A Filbert Is a Nut", and "Sonny".

• A Filbert Is a Nut (1959)
• Make Mine Homogenized (1960)
• Sonny (1963)
• The Thirst Quenchers (1963)
• Identity Mistaken (1964)
• Guttersnipe (1964)
• Odd Man In (1965)
• The Mailman Cometh (1965)
• False Scent (1981)
• Pelangus (1981)

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