Stanley Albert Schmidt (born March 7, 1944) is an American science fiction author and editor. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Biography

Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his PhD in physics in 1969.

Bibliography

Novels

Kyyra series

  • See also the Lifeboat Earth collection of stories below.

Short fiction collections

Stories

Short stories unless otherwise noted.

  • The Reluctant Ambassadors (1968)
  • . . . And Comfort to the Enemy (1969)
  • Lost Newton (1970)
  • May the Best Man Win (1971)
  • The Unreachable Stars (1971)
  • The Prophet (1972)
  • His Loyal Opposition (1976)
  • Panic (1978)
  • A Midsummer Newt's Dream (1979)
  • Camouflage (1981)
  • Tweedlioop (1981)
  • Mascots (1982)
  • War of Independence (1982)
  • The Folks Who Live on the Hill (1984)
  • Floodgate (1988)
  • The Man on the Cover (1990)
  • Worthsayer (1992)
  • Not Even a Chimney (1993)
  • Johnny Birdseed (1993)
  • The Parallels of Penzance (1998) with Michael A. Burstein
  • Good Intentions (1998) with Jack McDevitt
  • Generation Gap (2000)
  • The Emperor's Revenge (2002)

;Lifeboat Earth series

  • A Thrust of Greatness (1976)
  • Caesar Clark (1977)
  • Pinocchio (1977)
  • Dark Age (1977)
  • The Promised Land (1978)
  • Second Interlude (1978)
  • First Interlude (1978)
  • Third Interlude (1978)
  • Fourth Interlude (1978)

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|1968

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|Prologue

|1978

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|Opportunity Knocks

|2014

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|Night Ride and Sunrise – Part I of IV

|2015

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|Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)

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|Night Ride and Sunrise – Part II of IV

|2015

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|Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)

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|Night Ride and Sunrise – Part III of IV

|2015

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|Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)

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|Night Ride and Sunrise – Part IV of IV

|2015

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|Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)

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Anthologies (edited)

  • Unknown (1988)
  • Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (1988) with Martin H. Greenberg
  • Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (1996) with Robert M. Zubrin
  • Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998) with Gardner Dozois

;Analog anthologies

  • Analog Yearbook II (1981)
  • The Analog Anthology #1 (1980) also appeared as: Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology (1981) and Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction From Analog (1981)
  • The Analog Anthology #2 (1982) also appeared as: Analog: Readers' Choice (1982)
  • Analog's Children of the Future (1982)
  • Analog's Lighter Side (1982)
  • Analog: Writers' Choice (1983)
  • Analog's War and Peace (1983)
  • Aliens from Analog (1983)
  • Analog: Writers' Choice, Volume II (1984)
  • Analog's From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication (1984)
  • Analog's Expanding Universe (1986)
  • 6 Decades: The Best of Analog (1986)

Nonfiction

  • Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991) with Ian Randal Strock and Gardner Dozois and Tina Lee and Sheila Williams
  • Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating Extraterrestrial Life-Forms (1996)

Interviews

Notes

References

  • Stanley Schmidt's SFWA biography
  • Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine
  • Stanley Schmidt's homepage at SFWA.org
  • 2012 interview at Locus
  • 20-minute interview with Stanley Schmidt, 12/08