(1918-1997) US writer whose first sf story, "Locked Out", appeared in Astounding in 1940, but who became active, mainly with stories in Astounding, only after army service in World War Two. By 1967, when he became inactive, he had published nearly 60 stories. His Bureau of Slick Tricks tales, published in Astounding from 1948 to 1952, are typical of John W Campbell Jr's need for stories in which humans deftly outwit thick-skulled (often bureaucratic) Aliens. In his novel, D-99 (fixup 1962), which continues the series, Department 99 of the Terran government has the job of finagling citizens out of jams on other planets and flummoxing thicker species. The tone is fortunately light. [JC]
Horace Bowne Fyfe
born Jersey City, New Jersey: 30 September 1918
died Teaneck, New Jersey: 17 November 1997
works
- D-99 (New York: Pyramid Books, 1962) [fixup: Bureau of Slick Tricks: pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- Exile (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2007) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1953 Space Science Fiction: na/]
- The Talkative Tree (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2007) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1962 If: na/]
- A Transmutation of Muddles (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1960 Astounding: na/]
- Flamedown (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared August 1961 Analog: na/]
- The Outbreak of Peace (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1961 Analog: na/]
- Satellite System (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared October 1960 Analog: na/]
- Irresistible Weapon (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared July 1953 If: na/]
- Fee of the Frontier (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared August 1960 Amazing: na/]
- The Wedge (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1960 If: na/]
- Let There Be Light (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared November 1952 If: na/]
- The Envoy, Her (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1951 Planet Stories: na/]
- Manners of the Age (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1952 Galaxy: na/]
- H B Fyfe Resurrected: The Works of Horace Brown Fyfe (Madison, Wisconsin: Resurrected Press, 2010) [coll: pb/]
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