Malcolm Jameson
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Malcolm Jameson was an American
science fiction author. An officer in the US Navy, he was active in American pulp magazine
s during the Golden Age of Science Fiction
. His writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity. According to John W. Campbell Jr., Jameson "had much to do with the development of modern [c.1945] naval ordnance."
Jameson's first published fiction appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1938. His story "Doubled and Redoubled" may be the earliest work of fiction to feature a time loop
. His stories of Solar System
exploration about "Bullard of the Space Patrol" were posthumously collected in 1951 as a fixup novel and won the Boys Clubs of America Award; reviewing that collection, Boucher
and McComas
praised Bullard as "the most successfully drawn series character in modern science fiction.". P. Schuyler Miller
wrote that Jameson drew on his own naval experience to give the stories "a warm atmosphere of reality."
episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi
, John Anderson
, and Julie Newmar
. The hour-long fourth season episode was broadcast on April 11, 1963. The story was reprinted in The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
, Richard Matheson
, and Charles G. Waugh, Avon, 1985, and in Unknown Worlds, edited by Stanley Schmidt
and Martin H. Greenberg, Galahad Books, 1988.
in the early 1940s:
United States
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science fiction author. An officer in the US Navy, he was active in American pulp magazine
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...
s during the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Golden Age of Science Fiction
The first Golden Age of Science Fiction — often recognized as the period from the late 1930s through the 1950s — was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published...
. His writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity. According to John W. Campbell Jr., Jameson "had much to do with the development of modern [c.1945] naval ordnance."
Jameson's first published fiction appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1938. His story "Doubled and Redoubled" may be the earliest work of fiction to feature a time loop
Time loop
A time loop or temporal loop is a common plot device in science fiction in which time runs normally for a set period but then skips back like a broken record. When the time loop "resets", the memories of most characters are reset...
. His stories of Solar System
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
exploration about "Bullard of the Space Patrol" were posthumously collected in 1951 as a fixup novel and won the Boys Clubs of America Award; reviewing that collection, Boucher
Anthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...
and McComas
J. Francis McComas
Jesse Francis McComas was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe....
praised Bullard as "the most successfully drawn series character in modern science fiction.". P. Schuyler Miller
P. Schuyler Miller
Peter Schuyler Miller was an American science fiction writer and critic.-Life:Miller was raised in New York's Mohawk Valley, which led to a life-long interest in the Iroquois Indians. He pursued this as an amateur archaeologist and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association.He...
wrote that Jameson drew on his own naval experience to give the stories "a warm atmosphere of reality."
Twilight Zone episode
His novella "Blind Alley", first published in the June 1943 issue of Unknown, was the basis for the 1963 Twilight ZoneTwilight zone
-Television series and spinoffs:*The Twilight Zone, the anthology television series and its franchise:**The Twilight Zone , the 1959–1964 original television series***Twilight Zone: The Movie, a 1983 film based on the original series...
episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi was an American actor.-Biography:Albert Salmi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Finnish immigrant parents, and following a stint in the Army, took up acting as a career, studying Method acting with Lee Strasberg. In 1955, Salmi starred in Bus Stop on Broadway...
, John Anderson
John Anderson (actor)
-Biography:Born in Clayton, John Anderson grew up in Quincy and Adams County, Illinois.Prior to a prolific acting career, Anderson served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II where he met artist Orazio Fumagalli who became one of his best lifelong friends.He was known for several...
, and Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer and singer. Her most famous role is Catwoman in the Batman television series.-Early life:...
. The hour-long fourth season episode was broadcast on April 11, 1963. The story was reprinted in The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...
, Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
, and Charles G. Waugh, Avon, 1985, and in Unknown Worlds, edited by Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Schmidt
Stanley Albert Schmidt is an American science fiction author. Since 1978 he has been the editor of the SF magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact.-Biography:...
and Martin H. Greenberg, Galahad Books, 1988.
Stories in Unknown/Unknown Worlds
Jameson had eleven stories published in the magazine Unknown/Unknown WorldsUnknown (magazine)
Unknown was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell. Unknown was a companion to Street & Smith's science fiction pulp, Astounding Science Fiction, which was also edited by Campbell at the time; many authors and...
in the early 1940s:
- "Philtered Power", March 1940.
- "Doubled and Redoubled", February 1941.
- "Not According to Dante", June 1941.
- "Even the Angels", August 1941.
- "In His Own Image", February 1942.
- "The Old Ones Hear", June 1942.
- "Fighters Never Quit", August 1942.
- "The Goddess' Legacy", October 1942.
- "The Giftie Gien", April 1943.
- "Blind Alley", June 1943. * (novelette)
- "Heaven Is What You Make It", August 1943. (novelette)
Works
- "Blind Alley", novella, Unknown, June 1943.
- "Vengeance in Her Bones", short story, Weird Tales, May 1942
- Atomic Bomb, New York, A Bond-Charteris Publication, 1945, first serialized in Startling StoriesStartling StoriesStartling Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1955 by Standard Magazines. It was initially edited by Mort Weisinger, who was also the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, Standard's other science fiction title. Startling ran a lead novel in every issue;...
in 1944 as The Giant Atom. - Bullard of the Space Patrol, edited by Andre NortonAndre NortonAndre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
, Cleveland, World Pub. Co., "World Junior Library", 1951, 235 p.- World Pub., Co., 1955. Reprint edition, excluded the story "The Bureaucrat".
- E-book publication as Bullard, from CadetCadetA cadet is a trainee to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. The term comes from the term "cadet" for younger sons of a noble family.- Military context :...
to Commander: A Story of the Space Patrol, Spellcaster E Books, January 2005.
- Tarnished Utopia, Galaxy novelsGalaxy novelsGalaxy novels, sometimes titled Galaxy Science Fiction Novels, were a series of mostly reprint American science fiction novels published between 1950 and 1961....
No. 27, 1956, 128p. - Land of the Burning Sea, e-book, Spellcaster E Books, September 2005, originally published in April 1942 in Thrilling Wonder Stories.