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William F. Temple (1914–1989)

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Verk av William F. Temple

Shoot at the Moon (1966) 68 exemplar
The Fleshpots of Sansato (1968) 16 exemplar
The Three Suns of Amara (1962) 10 exemplar
Battle on Venus (1963) 8 exemplar
A Date To Remember 4 exemplar
A Niche in Time and Other Stories (2011) — Författare — 3 exemplar

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100 Great Fantasy Short, Short Stories (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 247 exemplar
The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 227 exemplar
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) (1939) — Bidragsgivare — 180 exemplar
World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 103 exemplar
New Writings in SF-7 (1966) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor101 exemplar
Invaders of Earth (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar
No Place Like Earth [collection] (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 44 exemplar
The Best of British SF 1 (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar
Science-Fiction Classics: The Stories That Morphed Into Movies (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1951 (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
The War Years 1936 1945 (Amazing Science Fiction Stories) (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
World Zero Minus: An SF Anthology (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
The Second Book of Unknown Tales of Horror (1826) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Startling Stories, March 1951 (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949 — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — Författare — 2 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 49 Number 2, Winter 1985 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Occasionally I enjoy a book by Temple. This one just didn't work for me. It was fairly well written but I was not interested.
 
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ikeman100 | Aug 28, 2023 |
1949 story. I felt as if this one could have been written by H G Wells. A medical doctor adopts a genius child prodigy who develops a replicating machine that touches the lives of his best friend and his wife. I was glad my copy of this book had a picture of the original cover from Amazing Stories inside it.
 
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AChild | 2 andra recensioner | Aug 30, 2022 |
1966 novel, the author avoided technicalities by stating these were already covered in a (fictional) book - Burton's Conquest of the Moon, about the first atomic-powered space-ship (The Endeavour). The book instead concentrates on the relationships of the unlikely crew, the Captain, a politician and his daughter, and two other men. Secret plans to recover a strange new element on the moon's surface located at the Tycho crater. The mysterious deaths of the crew, and a dead cat (and reference to Jules Verne's dead dog floating alongside the spaceship). Fun read, but a little far-fetched.… (mer)
 
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AChild | 1 annan recension | Aug 30, 2022 |
I had this science fiction novel on my 1951 to read list, but it was actually published in book form in 1949, no matter it proved to be an entertaining read. This was Temple's first novel worked up from his short story, which appeared some ten years earlier. Terence Fisher directed a film version for Hammer Film Productions some two years later.

The story is told in the first person by Dr. Harvey who takes care of an extremely intelligent boy (Bill Leggat) who comes from an abusive family. Bill becomes something of a scientific prodigy and after meeting Robin Grant at University the two men work together to produce a successful duplicating machine. Along the way they have employed the beautiful free spirited Barbara and the team form the three sides of the triangle. Both men fall in love with Barbara, but she chooses Robin as her partner, but there is the duplicating machine standing by and it is pressed into action.

This novels strengths are not so much the science fiction, but some very good characterisation and a plot that kept me reading until the denouement. William F Temple captures small town England well and the class system that pervades everything. Robin comes from a rich family and is the natural winner in the contest for the love of Barbara, but his adherence to the culture in which he was raised always threatens to blow the relationships apart:

"They were so certain of their ideas of right and wrong, these people. They could be coldly logical in practical things, yet hopelessly illogical in things that touched their emotional springs. They would be aghast at the moral wrongness of using poison gas in warfare, but if the enemy used it just once they would with a burning sense of righteousness, drench him and his family with it, with interest......"

It is the moral issues that dominate this book, they to a large extent drive the plot. The science and the choices made by the protagonists are in the realms of fiction, but the moral issues that they face are not and this is where I think the novel succeeds. It does show signs of being padded out from a short story. Temple includes some scientific theory, along with some literary references and I wondered how much of this was featured in the original short story. This is a good, well written science fiction yarn and so 4 stars
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baswood | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 6, 2021 |

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Verk
37
Även av
24
Medlemmar
331
Popularitet
#71,753
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
14
ISBN
17
Språk
2
Favoritmärkt
3

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