Joseph Lee Green is an American science fiction author and a charter member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is a prolific short story author best known for his novel Gold the Man. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, Polish and Dutch.

Biography

Joseph L Greene was born in 1931. He received his BA

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 from the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

. He has variously worked as a mill hand, a construction worker and a supervisor for Boeing

Boeing

The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

. His chief employment was in the American space program for which he worked for 37 years, retiring from NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

 as Deputy Chief of the Education Office at Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...

. His specialty was the preparation of NASA fact sheets, brochures and other such publications for the general public, in which complex scientific and engineering concepts were explained in layman's language.

Novels

• The Loafers of Refuge. 1965
• Gold the Man aka The Mind Behind the Eye. 1971
• Conscience Interplanetary. 1972
• The Horde. 1976
• Star Probe. 1976

Short fiction collections

• An Affair with Genius, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1969
  • Contains: "Jinn", "The Decision Makers", "Once Around Arcturus", "The Engineer", "Single Combat", "Life-force", "An Affair with Genius", "Tunnel of Love" and "Dance of the Cats."

Short fiction

• "The Engineer", New Worlds SF
  New Worlds (magazine)
  New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. For 25 years it was widely considered the leading science fiction magazine in Britain, publishing 201 issues up to 1971...
  
  , February, 1962.
• "Once Around Arcturus", Worlds of IF, September, 1962.
• "Initiation Rites", New Worlds SF, April, 1962.
• "The Colonist", New Worlds SF, August, 1962.
• "Life-Force", New Worlds SF, November, 1962.
• "Transmitter Problem", New Worlds SF, December, 1962.
• "The Fourth Generation", Science Fiction Adventures, Vol. 5, No. 30, 1962.
• "The-Old-Man-in-the-Mountain", New Worlds SF, June, 1963.
• "The Fight on Hurricane Island", Argosy (British edition), June, 1963
• "Refuge", New Worlds SF, July 1963.
• "Single Combat", New Worlds SF, Jul-Aug 1964
• "Haggard Honeymoon", (with James Webbert), New Writings in SF 1
  New Writings in SF 1
  New Writings in SF 1 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the initial volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1964
• "The Creators", New Writings in SF 2
  New Writings in SF 2
  New Writings in SF 2 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the second volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1964
• "The Decision Makers", Galaxy
  Galaxy Science Fiction
  Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break in to the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L...
  
  , April, 1965
• "Whaler's Wife", Inklings, Spring, 1965 (Chipola Jr. College, Marianna, Fla.)
• "Tunnel of Love", New Worlds SF, Vol 48, No.146.
• "Dance of the Cats", New Worlds SF, Vol 49, No. 157.
• "Treasure Hunt", New Writings in SF 5
  New Writings in SF 5
  New Writings in SF 5 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the fifth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1965
• "Birth of a Butterfly", New Writings in SF 10
  New Writings in SF 10
  New Writings in SF 10 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the tenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1967
• "Death of a Young Musician", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Aug. 1967.
• "Jinn", Galaxy, December 1968
• "When I Have Passed Away", New Writings in SF 15
  New Writings in SF 15
  New Writings in SF 15 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the fifteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , DOBSON BOOKS, London 1969.
• "An Affair With Genius", Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1969.
• "The Shamblers of Misery", Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1969.
• "Death and the Sensperience Poet", New Writings in SF 17
  New Writings in SF 17
  New Writings in SF 17 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the seventeenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1970
• "Wrong Attitude", Analog
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2011, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre...
  
  , Feb. 1971.
• "The Crier of Crystal", Analog, Oct. 1971.
• "The Butterflies of Beauty", Fantasy & Science Fiction, June, 1971.
• "First Light on a Darkling Plain", New Writings in SF 19
  New Writings in SF 19
  New Writings in SF 19 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the nineteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one...
  
  , Dobson Books, London, 1971
• "One Man Game", Analog, Feb., 1972.
• "The Seventh Floor", Eternity Magazine No. 1, July, 1972.
• "Three-Tour Man", Analog, August, 1972.
• "The Dwarfs of Zwergwelt", Worlds of If, June, 1972.
• "Robustus Revisited", Fantasy & Science Fiction, April, 1972.
• "A Custom of the Children of Life", Fantasy & Science Fiction, December, 1972.
• "Let My People Go", The Other Side of Tomorrow, Random House, New York, 1973.
• "The Birdlover", Showcase, Harper & Row, New York, 1973.
• "Space To Move", The New Mind, Macmillan, New York, 1973
• "The Waiting World", Future Kin, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1974.
• "A Star is Born", Fantasy and Science Fiction, February, 1974.
• "Jaybird's Song", Fantasy & Science Fiction, December, 1974.
• "Walk Barefoot on the Glass", Analog, March, 1974.
• "A Death in Coventry", Dystopian Visions, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1975.
• "Encounter With a Carnivore", Epoch, Berkely Publishing, New York, 1975
• "Last of the Chauvinists", Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov., 1975.
• "Weekend in Hartford", Dude, September 1975.
• "Jeremiah, Born Dying", Odyssey Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring, 1976.
• "To See the Stars that Blind", (with Patrice Milton) Fantasy & Science Fiction, March, 1977.
• "An Alien Conception", Nugget, June, 1977.
• "The Wind Among the Mindymuns", (with Patrice Milton) Fantasy & Science Fiction, December, 1978.
• "The Speckled Gantry", (with Patrice Milton) Destinies, Ace Books, 1979.
• "Gentle Into That Good Night", Analog, July, 1981.
• "Still Fall The Gentle Rains", Rigel, Fall, 1981.
• "EasyEd", (with Patrice Milton) Fantasy & Science Fiction, May, 1982.
• "And Be Lost Like Me", Analog, June, 1983.
• "At The Court of the Chrysoprase King", Rigel, Spring 1983.
• "Raccoon Reaction", Analog, September 1983
• "The Ruby Wand of Asrazel", World of Ithkar series, Berkeley Books, 1985
• "With Conscience of the New", (with Patrice Milton) Analog, February 1989

+ "Plague Ship", Aberrant Dreams, Autumn 2006

• "Play Sweetly, In Harmony", The Last Dangerous Visions
  The Last Dangerous Visions
  The Last Dangerous Visions was a planned sequel to the science fiction short story anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions, originally published in 1967 and 1972 respectively. It is edited by Harlan Ellison....
  
   (not yet published)

Articles

• "Countdown for Surveyor", Analog, March, 1967.
• "The Bugs that Live at -423°", Analog, Jan. 1968.
• "Manufacturing in Space", Analog, Dec. 1970
• "Skylab", Analog, March & April, 1972.

+ "Kennedy Space Center Will Give You A Lift", Odyssey Jan/Feb 1979

• "The E-Zines: Destiny or Disaster", SFWA Bulletin Spring 2002

+ "Our Five Days With John W. Campbell" SFWA Bullein Fall 2006

+ "Three Days With Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton", New York Review Of SF Nov 2009

External links

• Official website of Joseph and Patrice Green