Chad Oliver
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Symmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and Western
Western fiction
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...

 writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

. He was also one of the founders of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop
Turkey City Writer's Workshop
Turkey City Writer's Workshop is a peer-to-peer, professional science fiction writer's workshop in Texas. Founded in 1973 and still ongoing today, it was consciously modeled after the east coast Milford Writer's Workshop...

.

Novels

  • Mists of Dawn
    Mists of Dawn
    Mists of Dawn is a juvenile science fiction novel by science fiction writer and anthropologist Chad Oliver first published in 1952 by John C. Winston, Co. as a part of the Winston Science Fiction series of juvenile novels. The story follows the adventures of adolescent Mark Nye when he is...

    (1952)
  • Shadows in the Sun (1954)
  • The Winds of Time (1956)
  • Unearthly Neighbors (1960)
  • The Wolf is My Brother (1967)
  • The Shores of Another Sea (1971)
  • Giants in the Dust (1976)
  • Broken Eagle (1989)
  • The Cannibal Owl (1994)

Collections

  • Another Kind
    Another Kind
    Another Kind is the first collection of short stories by science fiction writer Chad Oliver. It was issued in hardcover and paperback by Ballantine Books in 1955 and a German translation was issued in 1965.-Contents:*"The Mother of Necessity",...

    (1955)
  • The Edge of Forever (1971)
  • A Star Above and Other Stories (2003)
  • Far from This Earth and Other Stories (2003)

Selected Short Fiction

  • "Transfusion"
    Transfusion (short story)
    Transfusion is a science fiction short story by Chad Oliver, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in June, 1959. Like many of his stories, it puts the author's own profession of anthropology into a science fiction context. In this case, the addition of time travel theoretically enables...

    (1959)


THE SHORE OF TOMORROW Full-Length Novelet [1953] Appeared in the pulp science fiction quarterly, STARTLING STORIES March, 1953

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