Wilson Tucker

Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker ( born November 23, 1914 in Deer Creek, Illinois, USA, † October 6, 2006 in Pinellas Park, Florida ) was an American author index mystery, action adventure, and science fiction. He wrote under the name " Wilson Tucker " and " Bob Tucker " and is known by the name of his fan base.

Biography

Arthur Wilson Tucker in 1926 along with his brother put in an orphanage because his mother had died and the father, a stage manager on various circus companies, not looked in a position to raise his sons. After four years, fled Tucker. Since 1931 he worked as a lighting technician and projectionist in Bloomington, with two interruptions, where he worked as an electrician for the Illinois State University and for 20th Century Fox. In 1972 he went into retirement.

Tucker came in 1932 with the science fiction into contact. In this decade, he began to move the science fiction magazine The planetoid. From 1938 to 1975 he published the magazine Le Zombie, which included more than sixty editions. Throughout his life he was firmly rooted in SF fandom; His first novel, The Chinese Doll was also a thriller that happens in the world of SF fans.

1941 Tucker published his first short story Interstellar Way Station. Between 1941 and 1979 he wrote 25 SF short stories. He also began writing novels, including eleven mystery novels and a dozen SF novels.

Tucker occurred mainly in the 1950s produced with significant science-fiction novels, of which The Long Loud Silence and The Year of the Quiet Sun were the best known. With The Lincoln Hunters Tucker created an SF novel, which is counted among the classics of time travel literature.

Tucker coined some terms that are used to today. This includes Space Opera (German Space Opera ). Also well known is his way of Tuckerization, where he uses the name of fans and friends in his works.

Awards

• His Science Fiction Newsletter (also known as Bloomington News Letter ) won the Retro Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1951.
• 1954 Tucker won the Retro Hugo Award.
• In 1970 he received the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
• In 1976 he was awarded retroactively the Campbell Award ( best novel ) for The Year of the Quiet Sun from the year 1970.
• In 1996 he received from the Science Fiction Writers of America ( SFWA ) the Author Emeritus Award.
• 2003 Tucker was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall Of Fame.

Works

• The Chinese Doll ( 1946), novel
• The City In The Sea (1951 ), novel
• The Long Loud Silence (1952 ), Roman, German The Incurable
• The Time Masters (1953 ), Roman, dt The last of the Immortals
• Wild Talent (1954 ), and The Man From Tomorrow
• The Science Fiction Subtreasury (1954 ), also Time: X, short story collection
• Time Bomb (1955), novel ( sequel to The Time Master), also Tomorrow Plus X, dt time - bomb
• The Lincoln Hunters (1958 ), Roman, German The Lincoln Hunters (1984 )
• To The Tombough station ( 1960), novel
• The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970 ), Roman, German The year of hidden sun (1985 )
• Ice and Iron (1974 ), novel
• Resurrection Days (1981 ), novel

Many of his short stories are collected appeared in

• The Best of Wilson Tucker ( 1982).