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Robert F(ranklin) Young (* 8. Juni 1915 in New York; † 22. Juni 1986) war ein amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller.
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Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 – June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. He owned a property on Lake Erie.
He remained little known by the public, in the USA as well as abroad. His career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died. Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.
His production started in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. It mainly consisted of a long list of short stories with a poetic and romantic style that made him compared to Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon. A good deal of these stories have been published in France by Galaxie, Fiction and the science fiction anthologies in the Livre de Poche. In Italy most of his short stories were published at Urania.
His most famous short stories are perhaps "The Dandelion Girl", which influenced the director of the anime series RahXephon, and "Little Dog Gone", which was nominated in 1965 for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Werke
Romane
Robert F. Young schrieb nur fünf Romane, einschließlich La Quete de la Sainte Grille (1975) welcher nur in Frankreich veröffentlicht wurde und auf einer Erweiterung seiner Kurzgeschichte "The Quest of the Holy Grille" beruht.
| Jahr | Titel | Land | Verlag | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | La Quete de la Sainte Grille | F | Opta | ISBN 2-7201-0019-6 |
| 1980 | Starfinder | USA | ISBN 978-0671832827 | |
| 1982 | The Last Yggdrasill | USA | Del Rey | ISBN 978-0345304209 |
| 1983 | Eridahn | USA | Del Rey | ISBN 0-345-30854-9 |
| 1985 | The Vizier's Second Daughter | USA | DAW | ISBN 0-88677-004-1 |
Kurzgeschichten
| 40-26-38 (1959) | The Girls from Fieu Dayol (1961) | Prisoners of Earth (1955) |
| A Drink of Darkness (1962) | Glass Houses (1984) | Production Problem (1959) |
| A Glass of Mars (1965) | Glimpses (1983) | Project Hi-Rise (1978) |
| A Knyght Ther Was (1963) | Goddess in Granite (1957) | Promised Planet (1955) |
| A Pattern for Penelope (1954) | The Grown-Up People's Feet (1955) | The Quality of Mercy (1955) |
| A Ship Will Come (1970) | The Hand (1972) | The Quest of the Holy Grille (1964) |
| Above This Race of Men (1976) | Hex Factor (1974) | The Quetenestel Towers (1955) |
| Acre in the Sky (1958) | Hologirl (1978) | Redemption (1963) |
| Added Inducement (1957) | The Honeyearthers (1964) | Reflections (1970) |
| Adventures of the Last Earthman in Search for Love (1973) | Hopsoil (1961) | Remnants of Things Past (1973) |
| Alec's Anabasis (1977) | The House at the End of the Street (1955) | Report on the Sexual Behavior on Arcturus X (1957) |
| An Apple for the Teacher (1955) | The House That Time Forgot (1963) | Requiem in Granite (1956) |
| Ape's Eye View (1957) | I Bring Fresh Flowers (1964) | Revolution 20 (1986) |
| Arena of Decisions (1964) | Impressionist (1960) | Robot Son (1959) |
| Audience Reaction (1954) | In Saturn's Rings (1964) | Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot (1960) |
| Beauty and the Beast (1954) | In What Cavern of the Deep (1964) | Romance In An Eleventh-Century Recharging Station (1965) |
| The Black Deep Thou Wingest (1953) | Invitation to the Waltz (1982) | Room with View (1956) |
| The Blonde From Barsoom (1962) | The Journal of Nathaniel Worth (1978) | Rumpelstiltskinski (1965) |
| The Bluebird Planet (1957) | Juke Doll (1959) | Saint Julie and the Visgi (1955) |
| Boarding Party (1963) | Jungle Doctor (1955) | Santa Clause (1959) |
| Boy Meets Dyevitza (1962) | Jupiter Found (1963) | The Second Philadelphia Experiment (1964) |
| Bruggil's Bride (1960) | Kingdom Come, Inc. (1967) | The Servant Problem (1962) |
| Chrome Pastures (1956) | L'Arc De Jeanne (1966) | Shakespeare of the Apes (1975) |
| The City of Brass (1965) | The Last Hero (1959) | The Space Roc (1978) |
| Clay Suburb (1975) | The Leaf (1958) | Spacetrack (1974) |
| Collector's Item (1956) | Let There Be Night (1963) | The Sphinx (also appeared as: The Pyramid Project) (1964) |
| The Courts of Jamshyd (1957) | Little Dog Gone (1964) | St. George and the Dragonmotive (1965) |
| Cousins (1986) | Little Red Schoolhouse (1956) | The Star Fisherman (1962) |
| Crutch (1978) | Lord of Rays (1975) | Star Mother (1959) |
| The Curious Case of Henry Dickens (1975) | The Lost Earthman (1983) | The Star of Stars (1974) |
| The Dandelion Girl (1961) | Magic Window (1958) | The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats (1959) |
| Darkspace (1982) | Mars Child (1985) | Stop-Over (1954) |
| The Day the Limited Was Late (1977) | Milton Inglorious (1976) | Storm Over Sodom (1961) |
| The Decayed Leg Bone (1974) | Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (1963) | Structural Defect (1957) |
| The Deep Space Scrolls (1963) | Minutes of A Meeting At The Mitre (1965) | The Summer of the Fallen Star (1981) |
| Deluge II (1961) | Miss Katy Three (1954) | Sweet Tooth (1963) |
| Dialogue in a Twenty-First Century Dining Room (1965) | The Moon of Advanced Learning (1982) | Techmech (1975) |
| Divine Wind (1984) | More Stately Mansions (1955) | The Tents of Kedar (1980) |
| Doll-Friend (1959) | Mr. and Mrs. Saturday Night (1958) | There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (1962) |
| Down the Ladder (1978) | Neither Do They Reap (1968) | Thirty Days Had September (1957) |
| The Earth Books (1977) | Neither Stairs Nor Door (1963) | The Thousand Injuries of Mr. Courtney (1964) |
| Earthscape (1982) | New Route to the Indies (1974) | Three-Mile Syndrome (1985) |
| The Eternal Lovers (1963) | Nikita Eisenhower Jones (1960) | Time Travel Inc. (1958) |
| Findokin's Way (1984) | No Deposit*No Refill (1974) | Tinkerboy (1974) |
| The First Mars Mission (1979) | O Little Town of Bethlehem II (1985) | To Fell a Tree (1959) |
| The First Sweet Sleep of Night (1955) | The Ogress (1970) | To See Ourselves (1954) |
| Fleuve Red (1977) | On the River (1965) | To Touch a Star (1970) |
| Flying Pan (1956) | One Love Have I (1955) | Universes (1982) |
| The Forest of Unreason (1961) | Operation Peanut Butter (1958) | Victim of the Year (1962) |
| The Fugitives (1968) | Origin of Species (1965) | Visionary Shapes (1986) |
| The Garden in the Forest (1953) | The Other Kids (1956) | What Bleak Land (1987) |
| Genesis 500 (1972) | P R N D L L (1976) | When Time Was New (1964) |
| Ghosts (1973) | Passage to Gomorrah (1959) | Whom the Gods Love (1972) |
| Ghur R'Hut Urr (1976) | Peeping Tommy (1965) | The Winning of Gloria Grandonwheels (1978) |
| The Giant, the Colleen, and the Twenty-One Cows (1987) | Perchance to Dream (1975) | Wish Upon a Star (1956) |
| The Giantess (1973) | Pilgrims' Project (1957) | The Wistful Witch (1959) |
| The Girl in his Mind (1963) | Pithecanthropus Astralis (1969) | Written in the Stars (1957) |
| Girl Saturday (1973) | Plane Jane (1962) | The Years (1972) |
| The Girl Who Made Time Stop (1961) | The Princess of Akkir (1984) | Yours, -Guy (1981) |
Weblinks
- Werke von Robert F. Young im Project Gutenberg
- Robert F. Young in der Internet Speculative Fiction Database
