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dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
recall correctly.
If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
º "Now ideas roam as freely as the migrating
D. G. (Doug) Stahler º geese, and cannot be walled out except
Beaumont, AB º by control and oppression."
º
dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca º Paul O. Williams - The Sword of Forebearance
Dan Goodman
In article <5e0eik$bp0$1...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
<dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
>same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
>Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
>recall correctly.
>
>If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
>collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
Colin Kapp. Here follows an incomplete bibliography of his short fiction.
I _know_ it's incomplete because the only two UE stories I recall reading
-- "The Railways Up on Cannis" and "The Subways of Tazoo" aren't listed;
perhaps someone in Britain can supplement this.
There doesn't seem to be any collection of the stories.
Colin Kapp - Publication Bibliography
Short Fiction
Survival Problem (1959)
[1] [[1]New Worlds Science Fiction, April 1959]
Auth/Ed: John Carnell
[1959, £2/-]
Breaking Point (1959)
[1] [[2]New Worlds Science Fiction, December 1959]
Auth/Ed: John Carnell
[1959, £2/6]
Ambassador to Verdammt (1967)
[1] [[3]Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, April 1967]
Auth/Ed: John W. Campbell, Jr.
[1967, $0.60]
[2] [[4]World's Best SF 1968]
Auth/Ed: Donald A. Wollheim
[1968]
I Bring You Hands (1968)
[1] [[5]Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1968]
Auth/Ed: Frederik Pohl
[1968, $.60]
The Teacher (1969)
[1] [[6]Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1969]
Auth/Ed: John W. Campbell, Jr.
[1969, $.60]
Gottlos (1969)
[1] [[7]Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1969]
Auth/Ed: John W. Campbell, Jr.
[1969, $.60]
Letter from an Unknown Genius (1971)
[1] [[8]Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971]
Auth/Ed: John W. Campbell, Jr.
[1971, $.60]
The Old King's Answers (1973)
[1] [[9]Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1973]
Auth/Ed: Ejler Jakobsson
[1973, $.75]
Crimescan (1973)
[1] [[10]Galaxy Science Fiction, Mar/Apr 1973]
Auth/Ed: Ejler Jakobsson
[1973, $.75]
War of the Wastelife (1974)
[1] [[11]Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1974]
Auth/Ed: Ejler Jakobsson
[1974, $.75]
Mephisto and the Ion Explorer (1974)
[1] [[12]Worlds of If Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 1974]
Auth/Ed: James Baen
[1974, £0.30p]
Something in the City (1984)
[1] [[13]Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1984]
Auth/Ed: Stanley Schmidt
[1984, $1.75]
An Alternative to Salt (1986)
[1] [[14]Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1986]
Auth/Ed: Stanley Schmidt
[1986, $2.00]
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Mike Scott
On 14 Feb 1997 01:19:16 GMT, dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
>I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
>same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
>Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
>recall correctly.
>
>If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
>collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
It's Colin Kapp. There *was* a collection, called, imaginatively, _The
Unorthodox Engineers_. It was published in hardback, in the UK, by
Dobson Books, and to the best of my knowledge it was never reprinted,
and had no foreign editions.
--
Mike Scott
mi...@moose.demon.co.uk
I. T. Manager
In article <5e0phd$doi$1...@darla.visi.com>,
dsg...@visi.com (Dan Goodman) wrote:
>In article <5e0eik$bp0$1...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
> <dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>>I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
>>same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
>>Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
>>recall correctly.
>>
>>If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
>>collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Colin Kapp. Here follows an incomplete bibliography of his short fiction.
>I _know_ it's incomplete because the only two UE stories I recall reading
>-- "The Railways Up on Cannis" and "The Subways of Tazoo" aren't listed;
>perhaps someone in Britain can supplement this.
>
>There doesn't seem to be any collection of the stories.
>
>
> Colin Kapp - Publication Bibliography
I'm not certain, but didn't he also write the cageworld series,
or am I thinking of someone else?
--
'ric
Dan Goodman
In article <AF2A17499...@rm-dynf1-157.rmplc.co.uk>,
was about a series of _short stories_.
William G. Contento
Mike Scott wrote:
>
> On 14 Feb 1997 01:19:16 GMT, dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
>
> >I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
> >same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
> >Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
> >recall correctly.
> >
> >If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
> >collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Unorthodox Engineers_. It was published in hardback, in the UK, by
> Dobson Books, and to the best of my knowledge it was never reprinted,
> and had no foreign editions.
>
> --
> Mike Scott
COLIN KAPP
*<The Unorthodox Engineers> (Dobson 0-234-72072-7, 1979, 216pp, hc)
7 The Railways Up on Cannis nv {New Worlds} Oct '59
41 The Subways of Tazoo nv <New Writings in SF. 3>
96 The Pen and the Dark nv <New Writings in SF. 8>
134 Getaway from Getawehi na <New Writings in SF. 16>
191 The Black Hole of Negrav nv <New Writings in SF. 25>
William G. Contento
jbost...@aol.com
>
>In article <5e0eik$bp0$1...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
> <dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>>I am looking to identify the author of several short stories, all with the
>>same theme and characters. The stories are about a group of "Unorthodox
>>Engineers" UE for short. The main character is a Fritz van Noon if I
>>recall correctly.
>>
>>If anyone can identify the author and/or let me know if there is a
>>collection of the UE stories it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Colin Kapp. Here follows an incomplete bibliography of his short fiction.
>I _know_ it's incomplete because the only two UE stories I recall reading
>-- "The Railways Up on Cannis" and "The Subways of Tazoo" aren't listed;
>perhaps someone in Britain can supplement this.
>
>There doesn't seem to be any collection of the stories.
[bibliography snipped]
Actually, there is a collection of the stories, called THE UNORTHODOX ENGINEERS and published in the UK in 1979. I don't remember the publisher. It has to my knowledge never had a paperback edition or a US edition of any sort and is apparently pretty hard to find. I don't recall ever seeing it for sale in the flesh or in a mail order catalog.
I did run across another of the stories in the series recently: "The Pen and the Dark," in John Carnell (ed.), NEW WRITINGS IN SF 7 (Bantam 1971). Apparently this was a selection of stories from different volumes of the UK edition of the NEW WRITINGS series. I'm not too attached to this book, so e-mail if interested.
John Boston
Robert Sneddon (SEE .SIG TO REPLY)
> In article <5e0eik$bp0$1...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
> <dsta...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
[Re: Colin Kapp, author of "The Unorthodox Engineers" stories]
> There doesn't seem to be any collection of the stories.
I think I've got a Dobson hardcover copy of the collected UE
stories up in the loft somewhere. I'll try and dig it out
tomorrow, if I can find it. It is a rare book, though, so
finding a copy will be a neat trick on the Wrong Side of the Big
Pond.
UE stories I can remember the titles of:
"Getaway from Getawehi"
"The Railways up on Cannis"
"The Subways of Tazoo"
"The Pen and the Dark"
and there was another involving a black hole orbiting a planet -
at a height of about three feet... (It was a very *flat* planet) -
can't remember the title of that one at the moment.
Most of these stories were first published in Ted Carnell's
excellent British anthology series "New Writings in SF" - these
are *not* particularly rare, and can often be found in S/H
bookshops and dealer's tables at cons (over here at least...)
Colin was a GOH at a Scottish convention in the early 80's -
his GOH speech was a *hoot!*
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