(1908-1980) US Air Force officer (Lt Colonel) and writer, mostly of nonfiction like Man in Space: The United States Air Force Program for Developing the Spacecraft Crew (1959); he edited The United States Air Force Report on the Ballistic Missile (anth 1958). His Near Future sf novel, Not in Solitude (1959; rev 1961), fictionalizes a first voyage to Mars, closely and vividly describing the dilemmas faced by the military-led travellers as key figures in the expedition mysteriously disappear; it soon becomes apparent that the planet life covering part of the planet comprises a single inimical Hive Mind. [JC/DRL]

Kenneth Franklin Gantz

born 18 November 1908

died March 1980

works

fiction

• Not in Solitude (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1959) [hb/Paul Galdone]
  • Not in Solitude (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1961) [rev of the above: pb/Richard Powers]

nonfiction (highly selected)

• Man in Space: The United States Air Force Program for Developing the Spacecraft Crew (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959) [nonfiction: hb/]

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