C. C. MacApp, pseudonym of Carroll Mather Capps (27 November 1917 – 15 January 1971) was an American

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...

author. He was also a long-time benefactor of San Francisco

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

. MacApp was a former president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, and won the Northern California and San Francisco chess championship several times. He also wrote as Carroll J. Clem.

Bibliography

Novels

As listed in Fantastic Fiction"C C MacApp", Fantastic Fiction
/ref> *'' Omha Abides ''(1968) *''Prisoners of the Sky ''(1969) * ''Secret of the Sunless World ''(as Carroll M. Capps, 1969) * ''Worlds of the Wall ''(1969) *'' Recall Not Earth ''(1970) * ''SUBB ''(1971) * ''Bumsider ''(1972)

Short stories

Published in''

Galaxy Science Fiction ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editi ...

'': *
The Drug
''Galaxy'', February 1961 *
And All the Earth a Grave
''Galaxy'', December 1963 *
A Flask of Fine Arcturan
''Galaxy'', February 1965 *
Sculptor
''Galaxy'', April 1965 * "The Mercurymen" ''Galaxy'', December 1965 *
Spare That Tree
''Galaxy'', June 1967 Published in ''

Worlds of If ''If'' was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. The magazine was moderately successful, though for most of its run it was not considered to be in the first tier of American ...

'': * " Prisoners of the Sky", ''Worlds of If'', February 1966 *
The Impersonators
, ''Worlds of If'', January 1967 *
When Sea is Born Again
, ''Worlds of If'', May 1967 *
A Ticket to Zenner"
, ''Worlds of If'', July 1967 *
The Fortunes of Peace
, ''Worlds of If'', September 1967 *
Winter of the Llangs
, ''Worlds of If'', October 1967 *
Mail Drop
, ''Worlds of If'', November 1967 *
Where the Subbs Go
, ''Worlds of If'', May 1968 *
The Hides of Marrech
, ''Worlds of If'', July 1968 *
Dream Street
, ''Worlds of If'', September 1968 *
Mad Ship
, ''Worlds of If'', May 1969

Gree series

This

space opera Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it features technological and soc ...

series ran in

alongside

Fred Saberhagen Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 – June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his ''Berserker'' series of science fiction short stories and novels. Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in ...

Berserker In the Old Norse written corpus, berserker were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word ''berserk'' (meaning "furiously violent or out of control"). Berserkers a ...

series and

Keith Laumer John Keith Laumer ( – ) was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. His older brother March Laumer was ...

's tales of Retief, the galactic

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

. *
The Slavers of Gree
, ''Worlds of If'', August 1964 *
Gree's Commandos
, ''Worlds of If'', February 1965 *
Gree's Hellcats
, ''Worlds of If'', April 1965 *
No Friend of Gree
, ''Worlds of If'', June 1965 *
Gree's Damned Ones
, ''Worlds of If'', September 1965 *
Enemies of Gree
, ''Worlds of If'', September 1966 *
The Sign of Gree
, ''Worlds of If'', November 1966 *
A Beachhead for Gree
, ''Worlds of If'', February 1967

Awards

His novella ''The Mercurymen'' was a finalist for the 1965

Nebula Award for Best Novella The Nebula Award for Best Novella is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novellas. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novella if it is between 17,500 and 4 ...

References

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