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Lee Correy (1928–1997)

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G. Harry Stine was born March 26, 1928. He graduated with a degree in physics from Colorado College. He worked as a civilian scientist at White Sands Proving Grounds and then at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division from 1955-1957. He was a founder visa mer of the American Model Rocketry Association and many of his pioneering rockets are displayed in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. He wrote science fiction using the pseudonym Lee Correy. His works included Starship Through Space, Rocket Man, Contraband Rocket, Shuttle Down, Space Doctor, Manna, A Matter of Metalaw, and in the Star Trek series The Abode of Life. Writing under G. Harry Stine, his works included Warbots, Judgment Day, and Starsea Invaders: First Action. He died of a stroke on November 2, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:

(eng) Actual name George Harry Stine. Wrote as Lee Correy, G. Harry Stine.

Serier

Verk av Lee Correy

The Abode of Life (1982) 565 exemplar
Handbook of Model Rocketry (1970) 150 exemplar
Space Doctor (1981) 143 exemplar
Shuttle Down (1981) 93 exemplar
Star Driver (1656) 67 exemplar
Manna (1984) 65 exemplar
A Matter of Metalaw (1986) 64 exemplar
Warbots (1988) 52 exemplar
The Space Enterprise (1980) 45 exemplar
First Action (1993) 45 exemplar
Handbook for Space Colonists (1985) 32 exemplar
Sierra Madre (Warbots, No 4) (1988) 31 exemplar
Second Contact (1994) 27 exemplar
Living in Space (1997) 25 exemplar
Third Encounter (1995) 23 exemplar
Space Power (1981) 21 exemplar
Force of Arms (Warbots, No 8) (1990) 21 exemplar
Judgement Day (Warbots, No 12) (1992) 16 exemplar
Blood Siege (Warbots, No 9) (1990) 15 exemplar
Mind Machines You Can Build (1992) 9 exemplar
Rocket Man (1955) 8 exemplar
The Silicon Gods (1984) 8 exemplar
Contraband rocket (1956) 6 exemplar
Confrontation in Space (1966) 6 exemplar
La morada de la vida (1994) 5 exemplar
Starship through space (1954) 5 exemplar
The Hopeful Future (1983) 5 exemplar
The Corporate Survivors (1986) 3 exemplar
The Easy Way Out 2 exemplar
Man and the Space Frontier (1962) 2 exemplar
Discover Space 1 exemplar
Benu ** 1 exemplar
Instrumentos parapsíquicos (1994) 1 exemplar
A mozgató gondolat (1992) 1 exemplar
The Model Rocketry Manual (1970) 1 exemplar
The Test Stand [short story] (1955) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Analog: The Best of Science Fiction (1982) — Författare — 126 exemplar
6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
Thor's Hammer (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
The expert dreamers (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 77 exemplar
Orion's Sword (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Astounding Science Fiction 1955 02 (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Astounding Science Fiction 1953 06 (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Analog Science Fact Reader (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction 1960 04 (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Open Space no. 1 (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Fantastic Universe May 1959 (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Fantastic. No. 034 (August 1957) (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Stine, George Harry
Andra namn
Stine, G. Harry
Stine, G. H.
Födelsedag
1928-03-26
Avled
1997-11-02
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Dödsort
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Bostadsorter
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Utbildning
Colorado College
Yrken
science fiction writer
science writer
Organisationer
National Association of Rocketry (founder)
Särskiljningsnotis
Actual name George Harry Stine. Wrote as Lee Correy, G. Harry Stine.

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Recensioner

Mercan es un planeta cerrado en si mismo. Sus habitantes no saben de la existencia de un mundo exterior y han aprendido a convivir con las periódicas explosiones radioctivas de su sol. Una de éstas va a producirse justamente cuando la Enterprise, averiada, aterriza en Mercan. Kirk y su tripulación se deberán enfrentar, no sólo a la incredulidad hostil de los mercanianos, sino también a una disyuntiva moral:
¿Deben destruir el sol para salvar la nave? ¿o permitir que los mercanianos sigan viviendo en el único mundo que conocen?… (mer)
 
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Natt90 | Jan 13, 2023 |
Somewhat interesting in that it plays with the idea of a 'lost colony.' It seems another version of the "World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky" idea, but this time with an actual world, not a generationship. Not very compelling, however, in the end - I felt like the Mercans needed more development for me to truly care about their curious society.
 
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everystartrek | 5 andra recensioner | Jan 5, 2023 |
Part of the fun for me in reading Ace Doubles is the pleasure of sampling science fiction written by people who had different perspectives and views from those of writers today. This is most obvious in the plot-driven nature of the novels, in which character development takes a back seat (if not escorted out of the room altogether) in favor of the premise and the resulting action. It's also interesting to read them as artifacts reflecting the concerns of their times, which may seem dated and quaint to us today but were very real to them. In that respect their very datedness can make them worthwhile reading.

This datedness emerges in ways that are not as quaint or appealing, however, as most of these novels about the future embody the social attitudes of the authors' time. This was especially evident in the latest pair I read, which offered two very different adventures. The first one was G. Harry Stine's Contraband Rocket. Published under Stine's pseudonym "Lee Corey"), it's about a group of near-future rocket enthusiasts who decide to refurbish a decommissioned rocket and travel to the moon. As a rocket engineer who played a major role in model rocketry, Stine's novel captures well the passion of a group of enthusiasts for the dream of flying in space and makes for interesting for this reason alone. Yet Stine's subplot, in which the wife of one of the central characters leaves him over his obsession with the project, absolutely grates today. What could have added a sense of emotional drama becomes instead a vehicle for taking some Scientology-esque digs at psychiatry (in Stine's future, divorce proceedings are a pretense for court-mandated brainwashing) culminating n an end in which the wife realizes that it's really her problem and not his. Once again, the Fifties-era patriarchy emerges triumphant.

Ironically, the issue of datedness was less evident in the other novel, even though it was the older of the two works. Murray Leinster's The Forgotten Planet was a fix-up of three short stories two of which were written in the early 1920s. In it a terraforming project is unintentionally abandoned midway through its centuries-long process due to a lost record, leaving a planet seeded by Terran plants and insects that without the presence of other animals grow unchecked. After a space liner crashes on the planet, the savage descendants of its survivors must cope with swarms of foot-long ants, wasps the size of sofas, and spiders that would barely fit comfortably in a garage. Like the writers of the "big-bug" movies of the 1950s Leinster glosses over the impossibility of insect physiology at that size, preferring to focus on his tale of a human (male, of course), who gradually rediscovers the value of tools and leads his tribe to survival. It's a gripping adventure (if a bit monotonous) but it ends with a casual embrace of hunting that is increasing at odds with our ethical development today. Like Stine Leinster is reflecting the attitudes of his class and time, but it's still jarring to see supposedly advanced humans embrace the slaughtering of unique species so eagerly.
… (mer)
 
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MacDad | Mar 27, 2020 |
There's an episode in the fifth season of Mad Men when the pretentious Paul Kinsey (who had left the ad agency a couple of years previously) reappears and asks Harry Crane, the head of the firm's television operations, to use his Hollywood connections to get NBC to look at his Star Trek spec script entitled "The Negron Complex" about a world in which a group called the Negrons are enslaved by people of different skin color. When Harry reads it he is appalled by how terrible it is, particularly with the clumsiness of its parallels to civil rights issues. "The twist is that the Negron is white!" he marvels sarcastically.

Ever since I laughed at Harry's deadpan declaration, I keep coming back to it when I encounter other heavy-handed examples of the franchise's commentary on contemporary society, as it came to mind again as I read this book. Written by "Lee Correy" (the pen name for G. Harry Stine), it transports the Enterprise crew to the planet Mercan, where a priest-like leadership known as the Guardians exploit the periodic radiation outbursts from their sun to maintain control over the population. Resisting them are the Technics who, in addition to developing prohibited technologies, are promoting the heretical idea that the Mercans are not the only beings in the universe.

You can guess how that turns out once the Enterprise shows up. And that for me was the big problem with this book, as the author is more focused on criticizing intellectual oppression than he is on developing distinctive characters or writing a suspenseful novel, At no point is there any real sense of narrative tension; the danger to the crew is minimal (the Guardians are very lackadaisical in their handling of Kirk and company), and all it takes to expand the civilization's horizons is a quick trip to the ship. Perhaps if Stine was focused less on setting up such flimsy straw men he might have done more with some of the more interesting ideas he introduces, such as the concept of a teleporter-based civilization. Instead all we have is another weak example of a Star Trek writer who prioritizes their opinionating over telling a good story.
… (mer)
 
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MacDad | 5 andra recensioner | Mar 27, 2020 |

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