Theodore Rose Cogswell (March 10, 1918 – February 3, 1987) was an American

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During the

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, Cogswell served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the

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. He later served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during WWII, where he flew cargo planes over the Burma Road hump, and was discharged with the rank of Captain. His earliest work to be published in a genre magazine, the

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, " The Spectre General" in ''

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'' (June 1952), was a humorous story concerning the long-forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Space Marines of a Galactic empire. It was selected as one of the genre's best novellas by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America and reprinted in '' The Science Fiction Hall of Fame''. Cogswell authored nearly 40 science fiction stories, most of them humorous, and co-authored '' Spock, Messiah!'', one of the earliest

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s tied in to the ''

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'' franchise. He was also the editor of the long-running "

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for pros", ''Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies''. A anthology of selections from ''PITCS'' was published by NESFA Press in 1993. Here, writers and editors discussed their own, and other's, works.

Bibliography

Novels

*'' Spock, Messiah!'' (1976) (''

'' tie-in novel co-authored Charles A. Spano, Jr.)

Collections

*''The Wall Around the World'' (1962) (including the title story) *''The Third Eye'' (1968)

Other works

*"The Friggin Falcon" (1966) (poem) *''PITCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies'' (1993, editor)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cogswell, Theodore R. 1918 births 1987 deaths American science fiction writers Abraham Lincoln Brigade members 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers