T. J. Bass

Thomas J. Bassler, MD (* July 7, 1932 in Clinton, Iowa, † December 13, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii ) was an American science fiction writer and Doctor of Medicine, who published under the pseudonym TJ Bass.

Biography

Bassler graduated in 1959 from the University of Iowa. He achieved fame through the largely rejected theory that Non smoking who complete a marathon in under four hours could eat whatever they like and would never suffer a heart attack. Jim Fixx approved the theses bass coupler to in his book The Complete Book of Running for the most part. Tragically, Fixx died after a running exercise at the age of 52 of a heart attack.

The U.S. Congressman Goodloe Byron died in October 1978 during jogging of a heart attack. According to Nathan Pritikin, a pioneer in the field of nutrition advice, graduated from Byron six times the Boston Marathon with a personal best of 3:28:40 and was smoking at the time not for 25 years. Byron was an avid reader of Bass 's book and therefore ignored the warnings of his doctors, who found after tests that narrowed coronary arteries Byron. The doctors advised Byron, no longer operate its endurance sports.

For Bassler was the cause but no infarction. He claimed that Byron had died because he had not eaten any of the important food for him for marathon runners: yeast, yogurt, peanuts, beer, wheat germ and vitamin C. ( "he probably was not eating one of the six foods did marathoners eat: yeast, yogurt, peanuts, beer, wheat germ and vitamin C. " ). After an autopsy contradicted him Manuel G. Jimenez and answered. " For me it is clearly a coronary heart muscle weakness triggered by atherosclerosis, the cause of death " ( " For me, it plainly what coronary insufficiency due to atherosclerosis. " )

His novels The ants Culture and The God Whale were nominated for the Nebula Award. Ant culture originated as a short story, the goal for bass then later into a novel. His medical background, he used to achieve an unparalleled level of realism to the present day level in his stories. Both novels tell of a human-like race with only four toes, which has been lost all aggressiveness.

Bibliography

Novels

• The ants culture. Utopian - technical novel. translated by Wulf Bergner. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-442-23163-9. ( Half Past Human, 1971)
• The God Whale. Science fiction novel, translated by Annette of Carpentier. Earthscan Publishers, Munich / Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-426-05751-4. (The Godwhale, 1974)

Short stories

• Star Itch. In 1968.
• Star Seeder. In 1969.
• Half Past Human. In 1969.
• G.I.T.A.R. also: Song of Kaia. In 1970.
• A Game of Biochess. In 1970.
• The harvest vessel. 1975 Rorqual Maru. In 1972.

Non-fiction book

As Thomas J. Bassler