Ellanby, Boyd
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Joint pseudonym of Lyle Gifford Boyd (1907-1982) and her husband William Clouser Boyd (1903-1983), the latter a professor of immunochemistry at Boston University, Massachusetts. They began to publish work of genre interest with Category Phoenix (May 1952 Galaxy; 2010 ebook), continuing to a total of fourteen stories in various contemporary SF Magazines until 1958, as well as a small number of essays for such magazines 1958-1959. The Star Lord (June 1953 Imagination; 2010 ebook) interestingly recasts the 1912 voyage of the Titanic as sf, with the titular Spaceship on its maiden voyage running into a Hyperspace iceberg-analogue known as the Thakura Ripples. On one occasion – the authors' final published tale, "A Toothache on Zenob" (October 1958 If) – the Ellanby byline was printed as Boyd Ellanbee.
Both also wrote nonfiction under their own names: William C Boyd collaborated with Isaac Asimov on the popular-science title Races and People (1955) (see Race in SF) while Lyle G Boyd collaborated with US astrophysicist Donald H Menzel (1901-1976) on the highly sceptical UFO study The World of Flying Saucers (1963). [DRL]
see also: Nuclear Energy.
Lyle Ardetia Gifford Boyd
born St Joseph, Missouri: 1907
died Watertown, Massachusetts: 1 January 1982
William Boyd
born Dearborn, Missouri: 4 March 1903
died Falmouth, Massachusetts: 19 February 1983
works
- Show Business (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared November 1953 If: na/]
- Category Phoenix (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared May 1952 Galaxy: na/]
- The Star Lord (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared June 1953 Imagination: na/]
- What Do You Read? (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2015) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1953 Other Worlds: na/]
- Chain Reaction (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1956 Galaxy: na/]
nonfiction
- Races and People (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1955) by Isaac Asimov and William C Boyd [nonfiction: hb/John Bradford]
- The World of Flying Saucers (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1963) by Lyle G Boyd and Donald H Menzel [nonfiction: hb/]
links
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database (Lyle G Boyd)
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database (William C Boyd)
- Project Gutenberg
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