Stanley Schmidt

Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt
Born	Stanley Albert Schmidt; March 7, 1944 (age 80); Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Editor, writer
Nationality	American
Education	University of Cincinnati; Case Western Reserve University (PhD)
Genre	science fiction

Stanley Albert Schmidt (born March 7, 1944) is an American science fiction author and editor. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine.^[1]^{[additional citation(s) needed]}

Biography

Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his PhD in physics in 1969.^[1]

After receiving his degree, he became a professor at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, biology, and science fiction.^[1]

Schmidt was editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine from 1978 to his retirement on 29 August 2012. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and was Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.

Fiction

His first publication was "A Flash of Darkness" (Analog, September 1968); his first novel was The Sins of the Fathers (serialized in Analog from November 1973 to January 1974); and his first book was Newton and the Quasi-Apple in 1975.

One of his most recent novels, Argonaut (2002), shows an alien invasion from a new angle.^{[citation needed]}

Hugo Award nominations

He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor every year from 1980 through 2006 (its final year), and for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form every year from 2007 (its first year) through 2013. He won the Hugo for the first time in 2013. In 2013 he was awarded a Special Committee Award for his editorial work.

Bibliography

Novels

Newton and the quasi-apple. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday. 1975.
Tweedlioop. 1986.
Argonaut. 2002.
Night Ride and Sunrise. 2017.^[a]

Kyyra series

The sins of the fathers. 1976.
See also the Lifeboat Earth collection of stories below.

Short fiction

Collections

Lifeboat Earth. New York: Berkley Books. 1978.
Generation Gap and Other Stories (2002)

Stories^[b]

The Reluctant Ambassadors (1968)
. . . And Comfort to the Enemy (1969)
Lost Newton (1970)
May the Best Man Win (1971)
The Unreachable Stars (1971)
The Prophet (1972)
His Loyal Opposition (1976)
Panic (1978)
A Midsummer Newt's Dream (1979)
Camouflage (1981)
Tweedlioop (1981)
Mascots (1982)
War of Independence (1982)
The Folks Who Live on the Hill (1984)
Floodgate (1988)
The Man on the Cover (1990)
Worthsayer (1992)
Not Even a Chimney (1993)
Johnny Birdseed (1993)
The Parallels of Penzance (1998) with Michael A. Burstein
Good Intentions (1998) with Jack McDevitt
Generation Gap (2000)
The Emperor's Revenge (2002)

Lifeboat Earth series

A Thrust of Greatness (1976)
Caesar Clark (1977)
Pinocchio (1977)
Dark Age (1977)
The Promised Land (1978)
Second Interlude (1978)
First Interlude (1978)
Third Interlude (1978)
Fourth Interlude (1978)

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
A Flash of Darkness	1968
Prologue	1978
Opportunity Knocks	2014	Schmidt, Joyce & Stanley Schmidt (Oct 2014). "Opportunity Knocks". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (10): 8–17.
Night Ride and Sunrise – Part I of IV	2015	Schmidt, Stanley (July–August 2015). "Night Ride and Sunrise – Part I of IV". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (7–8): 10–42.	Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)	Serial
Night Ride and Sunrise – Part II of IV	2015	Schmidt, Stanley (September 2015). "Night Ride and Sunrise – Part II of IV". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (9): 70–104.	Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)	Serial
Night Ride and Sunrise – Part III of IV	2015	Schmidt, Stanley (October 2015). "Night Ride and Sunrise – Part III of IV". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (10): 70–104.	Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)	Serial
Night Ride and Sunrise – Part IV of IV	2015	Schmidt, Stanley (November 2015). "Night Ride and Sunrise – Part IV of IV". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (11): 72–104.	Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)	Serial

Anthologies (edited)

Unknown (1988)
Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (1988) with Martin H. Greenberg
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (1996) with Robert M. Zubrin
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998) with Gardner Dozois

Analog anthologies

Analog Yearbook II (1981)
The Analog Anthology #1 (1980) also appeared as: Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology (1981) and Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction From Analog (1981)
The Analog Anthology #2 (1982) also appeared as: Analog: Readers' Choice (1982)
Analog's Children of the Future (1982)
Analog's Lighter Side (1982)
Analog: Writers' Choice (1983)
Analog's War and Peace (1983)
Aliens from Analog (1983)
Analog: Writers' Choice, Volume II (1984)
Analog's From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication (1984)
Analog's Expanding Universe (1986)
6 Decades: The Best of Analog (1986)

Nonfiction

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991) with Ian Randal Strock and Gardner Dozois and Tina Lee and Sheila Williams
Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating Extraterrestrial Life-Forms (1996)
Schmidt, Stanley (2001). Which way to the future? Selected essays from Analog.
— (2008). The Coming Convergence: Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape our World and Change the Future.
— (Jul–Aug 2008). "Choosing Tools". Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 128 (7–8): 4–8.
— (Oct 2008). "RSVP". Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 128 (10): 4–7.
— (Apr 2014). "Meditation on a Bar Stool". Guest Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (4): 4–7.
— (Jan–Feb 2015). "Orbits to Order". Science Fact. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (1&2): 30–36.
— (April 2015). "Hiding the Info-Dump, or: Feeding Information Without Choking the Reader". Special Feature. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (4): 54–61.
— (June 2015). "A Future for Analog". Special Feature. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (6): 7–9.
— (December 2015). "The science of Night ride and sunrise". Science Fact. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (12): 38–44.
— (July–August 2016). "The end or leaving the reader satisfied". Special Feature. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 136 (7&8): 118–124.

Interviews

Zinos-Amaro, Alvaro (December 2015). "Backpack and packrat : an interview with Stanley Schmidt". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (12): 45–47.

Notes

^ Originally published as a four–part serial in Analog Science Fiction and Fact during 2015.
^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ernst, Stephanie A. (January 2007). "Stanley Schmidt". Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works. Library Reference Plus – via EBSCOHost.

External links

[2] Originally published as a four–part serial in Analog Science Fiction and Fact during 2015.

[3] Short stories unless otherwise noted.

[:0-1] Ernst, Stephanie A. (January 2007). "Stanley Schmidt". Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works. Library Reference Plus – via EBSCOHost.

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