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Katherine MacLean


(Katherine Anne MacLean)
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Wife of David Mason

Katherine MacLean was an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.

Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic." Although her stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations, The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (1962) is her only collection of short fiction.
 
 
Novels
   Unclean Sacrifice (1958)
   Cosmic Checkmate (1962) (with Charles V Devet)
   Trouble With Treaties (1970)
   Missing Man (1975)
   Second Game (1981) (with Charles V Devet)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Contagion (1950)
   Pictures Don't Lie (1951)
   The Snowball Effect (1952)
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Anthologies containing stories by Katherine MacLean
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Black Infinity: First Contact (2022)
edited by
Tom English

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Awards
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1959) : Second Game [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1972) : The Missing Man [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1976) : Missing Man


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