Stanley Schmidt

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

For the American electrical engineer, see Stanley F. Schmidt.
Stanley Albert Schmidt
Born (1944-03-07) March 7, 1944
Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupationeditor, writer
NationalityUnited States
Genrescience fiction
Website
www.analogsf.com

Biography

Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. After receiving his degree, he became a professor at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, and science fiction. Schmidt was editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine from 1978 to his retirement on 29 August 2012. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and was Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.

Fiction

His first publication was "A Flash of Darkness" (Analog, September 1968); his first novel was The Sins of the Fathers (serialized in Analog from November 1973 to January 1974); and his first book was Newton and the Quasi-Apple in 1975.

One of his most recent novels, Argonaut (2002), shows an alien invasion from a new angle.

Hugo Award nominations

He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor every year from 1980 through 2006 (its final year), and for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form every year from 2007 (its first year) through 2013. He won the Hugo for the first time in 2013. In 2013 he was awarded a Special Committee Award for his editorial work.

Bibliography
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Novels
  • Newton and the quasi-apple. 1975.
  • Tweedlioop. 1986.
  • Argonaut (2002)
  • Night Ride and Sunrise (2017) (Analog serial in 2015)
Kyyra series
  • The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
  • Lifeboat Earth (1978) [C]

Short fiction
Collections
  • Generation Gap and Other Stories (2002)
Stories[1]
  • A Flash of Darkness (1968)
  • 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)
  • Prologue (1978)
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Opportunity knocks 2014 Schmidt, Joyce & Stanley Schmidt (Oct 2014). "Opportunity knocks". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (10): 8–17.

Anthologies (edited)
Analog anthologies

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)
  • Which Way to the Future?: Selected Essays From Analog (2001)
  • Schmidt, Stanley (2008). The coming convergence : surprising ways diverse technologies interact to shape our world and change the future.
  • — (Jul–Aug 2008). "Choosing tools". Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 128 (7–8): 4–8.
  • — (Oct 2008). "RSVP". Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 128 (10): 4–7.
  • — (Apr 2014). "Meditation on a bar stool". Guest Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (4): 4–7.
  • — (Jan–Feb 2015). "Orbits to order". Science Fact. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (1&2): 30–36.

Notes
  1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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