Theodore Lockard Thomas is an American chemical engineer

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 and attorney

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 who wrote more than 50 science fiction

Science fiction

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 short stories

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, published between the early 1950s to the late 1970s. He also collaborated on two novels with Kate Wilhelm

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, as well as producing stories under the pseudonyms of Leonard Lockard and Cogswell Thomas, and has been nominated for a Nebula award

Nebula Award

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 and a Hugo Award.

Collaborations with Kate Wilhelm

• The Clone (1965, expanded from his 1959 short story of the same name)
• The Year of the Cloud (1970)

Short stories

• "The Far Look", in Astounding, August 1956
• "Ceramic Incident", in Astounding, October 1956
• "The Innocents’ Refuge", in Science Fiction Stories, May 1957
• "Satellite Passage", in If, Dec 1958, and available in The Best of the Best Part One
• "Day of Succession", in Astounding, August 1959
• "The Clone", in Fantastic, Dec 1959
• "December 28th", in Playboy, Dec 1959
• "The Intruder", in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb 1961
• "Test", in Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1962
• "The Lonely Man", in Galaxy, April 1963
• "The Ice Ages", in Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1965
• "Science Springboard, The: Smog", article in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan 1966
• "The Doctor", in Orbit 2, 1967
• "The Weather on the Sun", in Orbit 8, 1970 (Also available in The Science Fictional Solar System)
• "Early Bird (Cogswell)
  Early Bird (Cogswell)
  "Early Bird" is a science fiction short story written in 1973 by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas. The story was first published in Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology...
  
  ", in Astounding, 1973 (Also available in The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology)
• Ker-Plop
  Ker-Plop
  "Ker-Plop" is a science fiction novella written in 1979 by Ted Reynolds.-Synopsis:Cotter Oren is a checker-pilot, a elite group tasked to 'meet and greet' travellers from deep space who arrive in the automatic net around the planet Randar...
  
  , in Asimov's Science Fiction
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  , 1979
• "The Splice", in Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1981

As Leonard Lockard

• "The Lagging Profession" (1961)
• "Improbable Profession" (1952), in Astounding, September 1952 (co-written with Charles L. Harness)

External links

• Theodore L. Thomas Short Story Guide
• Discussion of Thomas and the accuracy of his predictions