Tom Godwin

Tom Godwin (1915–1980) was a science fiction author. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable in the mid-1950s science fiction genre. He also had three novels published, but these stayed more firmly in John W. Campbell's preferred styles and are less notable. Graduated from Bay Village High School in Bay Village, Ohio and was a fan of squirrels.

Novels

Ragnarok series:
*"The Survivors" (Gnome Press, 1958) a.k.a. "Space Prison" (Pyramid Books, 1960)
*"The Space Barbarians" (Pyramid Books, 1964)

Others:
*"Beyond Another Sun" (Curtis, 1971)

External links

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Published short stories by Tom Godwin:

#The Gulf Between - in 'Astounding' for October 1953
#Mother of Invention - in 'Astounding' for December 1953
#The Greater Thing - in 'Astounding' for February 1954
#The Cold Equations - in Astounding' for August 1954
#No Species Alone - in 'Universe' for November 1954
#You Created Us - in 'Fantastic Universe' for October 1955
#The Barbarians - in 'If' for December 1955
#Operation Opera - in 'Fantasy and Science Fiction' for April 1956
#Brain Teaser - in 'If' for October 1956
#Too Soon to Die (basis for his novel 'The Survivors') - in 'Venture' for July 1957
#The Harvest - in 'Venture' for July 1957
#The Last Victory - in 'If' for August 1957
#The Nothing Equation - in 'Amazing' for December 1957
#The Wild Ones - in 'Science Fiction Stories' for January 1958
#My Brother - The Ape - in 'Amazing' for January 1958
#Cry From a Far Planet - in 'Amazing' for September 1958
#A Place Beyond the Stars - in 'Super Science Fiction' for February 1959
#Empathy - in 'Fantastic' for October 1959
#The Helpful Hand of God - in 'Analog' for December 1961
#...and Devious the Line of Duty - in 'Analog' for December 1962
#Desert Execution - in 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine' for July 1967
#The Gentle Captive - in the original story anthology 'Signs and Wonders' (1972)
#We'll Walk Again the Moonlight - in the anthology 'Crisis' (1974)
#Backfire - in 'Ed McBaines 87th Precinct Mystery Magazine' for April 1975
#The Steel Guardian - in 'Antaeus' for Spring/Summer 1977
#Social Blunder - in 'Amazing' for July 1977
#Before Willows Ever Walked - in 'Fantasy and Science Fiction' for March 1980