Dieser Artikel behandelt den britischen Science-Fiction-Autor. Zum gleichnamigen kanadischen Science-Fiction-Autor (
Schrodinger’s Mousetrap
, 1994) siehe
Alan Barclay (Kanada)
.
Alan Barclay
(eigentlich
George Barclay Tait
; geboren am
13. Dezember
1909
; gestorben im Februar
1991
in
Stockport
,
Cheshire
) war ein britischer
Science-Fiction
-Autor.
Tait war Bauingenieur und diente im Zweiten Weltkrieg in der
Royal Air Force
.
Ab 1951 begann er Kurzgeschichten zu veroffentlichen, hauptsachlich in
Science Fantasy
und
New Worlds
.
Sein erster Roman, die
Space Opera
Of Earth and Fire
(1974), ein
Fix-up
zuvor veroffentlichter Geschichten, wurde unter dem Titel
Die Raumsoldaten
ins Deutsche ubersetzt.
- Romane
- Of Earth and Fire
(1974)
- Deutsch:
Die Raumsoldaten.
Ubersetzt von Horst Pukallus. Bastei-Lubbe SF #21061, 1974,
ISBN 3-404-04964-0
.
- The City and the Desert
(1976)
- No Magic Carpet
(1976)
- The Cruel Years of Winter
(1978)
- The Guardian at Sunset
(1979)
- Kurzgeschichten
1951:
- Welcome, Stranger!
(in:
New Worlds, #11 Autumn 1951
)
1952:
- Information
(in:
Astounding Science Fiction, February 1952
)
- Enemy in Their Midst
(in:
Science-Fantasy, v 2 # 5, Autumn 1952
)
1953:
- The Hard Way
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #21 June 1953
)
1954:
- The Lever and the Fulcrum
(in:
Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, #44 April 1954
)
- Only an Echo
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #22 April 1954
)
- Walk into My Parlour
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #23 May 1954
)
- The Firebird
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #26 August 1954
)
1955:
- The Dragon
(in:
Science Fantasy, February 1955
)
- The Real McCoy
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #34 April 1955
)
- The Single Ship
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #39 September 1955
)
- Rock 83
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #40 October 1955
)
1956:
- The Hot Potato
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #43 January 1956
)
- Louey
(in:
Science Fantasy, v 6 #17, 1956
)
- The Refugee
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #48 June 1956
)
- The Thing in Common
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #50 August 1956
)
- The Neutral
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #53 November 1956
)
- The Executioner
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #54 December 1956
)
1957:
- A Jacko for McCoy
(in:
Saturn, March 1957
)
- Misfit
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #60 June 1957
)
- To Percy
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #65 November 1957
)
1959:
- The Silver Moons
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #82 April 1959
)
- Nearly Extinct
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #89 December 1959
)
- Who Was Here?
(1959, in:
Science Fantasy, #38 December
)
1961:
- The Scapegoat
(1961, in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #105 April
)
- Haircrack
(1961, in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #106 May
)
- Sachliteratur
- Interplanetary Navigation
(in:
New Worlds Science Fiction, #67 January 1958
)
- The Bow
(1960, in:
Science Fiction Adventures, No. 17
)
- Hans Joachim Alpers
,
Werner Fuchs
,
Ronald M. Hahn
:
Reclams Science-fiction-Fuhrer.
Reclam, Stuttgart 1982,
ISBN 3-15-010312-6
, S. 30.
- Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn,
Wolfgang Jeschke
:
Lexikon der Science Fiction Literatur.
Heyne, Munchen 1991,
ISBN 3-453-02453-2
, S. 203.
- John Clute
:
Barclay, Alan.
In: John Clute,
Peter Nicholls
:
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
.
3. Auflage (Online-Ausgabe), 4. April 2017, abgerufen am 6. November 2017.
- Donald H. Tuck
:
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968.
Advent, Chicago 1974,
ISBN 0-911682-20-1
, S. 417, s. v.
Tait, George B.
