Lloyd Biggle Jr
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Description
Lloyd Biggle was born in Waterloo, Iowa. During World War II he served in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division and was wounded twice, leaving him disabled for life. After the war, he received an A.B. Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s. He began writing professionally in 1955, and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, All the Colors of Darkness in 1963. He published two-dozen books, magazine stories, and numerous articles. He continued writing until his death in 2002.
Books
A Galaxy of Strangers
Eight science fiction stories by a master of the genre.
The light that never was
Humanity has stretched out over thousands and thousands of worlds. Each planet is virtually independent from one another. Various intelligent species have been discovered but humans start putting them in camps, killing them, refusing to grant them any rights, and branding them with derogatory names (for example, animaloids). This massive anti-animaloid furor spreading across the populated worlds threatens to envelope the tourist-trap planet Donev. However, Donev does not appear to have any indigenous animaloids of their own.
Nebula Award Stories
All the colors of darkness
When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. Inspector Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing is as it seems.
Monsters
The darkest parts of your brain house your darkest fears. Readers learn about the monsters that lurk in the shadows of their closet and beyond. They also discover the origin story of famous creatures like the Loch Ness Monster, and why people have searched for werewolves, dragons, and other creatures for centuries. Readers can also take a quiz to see if you could tackle the toughest monsters in the world and make it out alive.
The Chronocide Mission
In a world 300 years in the future, shattered by war and holocaust, time travel may hold the answer to all of mankind's problems. A scientist has perfected time travel, and he vows to stop the horrors of war that caused his world. But when things go wrong … will the world ever be right again?
Alien Main
At his death in 1985, Sherred left an unfinished sequel to Alien Island, which author Lloyd Biggle, Jr. completed and published as Alien Main. Set on Earth some two hundred years after aliens had nearly destroyed life on the planet, the novel finds descendants of the aliens returning to atone for the atrocities committed by their ancestors. They find that the inhabitants of Earth are now living in tribes, with no connections except for a common belief in a goddess, whose return they await. While reviewer Gerald Jonas deemed Alien Main "not very ambitious," he nevertheless found the work offers a "pleasant blend of surprise and predictability," concluding: "Books such as this are the nourishing bread and butter of science fiction."
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)
Introduction - essay by Martin H. Greenberg Strikebreaker - short story by Isaac Asimov Omnilingual - novelette by H. Beam Piper The Mile-Long Spaceship - short story by Kate Wilhelm Call Me Joe - novelette by Poul Anderson You Know Willie - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell Hunting Machine - short story by Carol Emshwiller World of a Thousand Colors - short story by Robert Silverberg Let's Be Frank - short story by Brian W. Aldiss The Cage - short story by A. Bertram Chandler The Education of Tigress McCardle - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle) The Tunesmith - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. A Loint of Paw - short story by Isaac Asimov Game Preserve - short story by Rog Phillips Soldier - novelette by Harlan Ellison The Last Man Left in the Bar - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
Young extraterrestrials
Doorstep - short story by Keith Laumer Who's on First? - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. In the Jaws of Danger - short story by Piers Anthony The Witness - novelette by Eric Frank Russell The Mississippi Saucer - short story by Frank Belknap Long Primary Education of the Camiroi - short story by R. A. Lafferty Tween - novelette by J. F. Bone Zoo - short story by Edward D. Hoch Subcommittee - novelette by Zenna Henderson Keyhole - short story by Murray Leinster Kindergarten - short story by James E. Gunn