Felix C. Gotschalk (September 7, 1929 – April 20, 2002) was an American psychologist and

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writer with a distinct, idiosyncratic style, his work marked by energetic exploration of social and sexual taboos.

Fiction

Gotschalk was born in

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. He flourished in the 1970s, publishing mainly in anthologies such as

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's ''New Dimensions'' and

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's ''Orbit'' series, where the experimental energies of science fiction's New Wave persisted. He was the author of one novel, ''Growing Up in Tier 3000'' (

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, 1975), which shares themes and a

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setting with a number of his short stories. During the 1980s, his stories appeared with some regularity in ''

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'', but remain uncollected.

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