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October 15, 2010 | History
Damon Knight
19 September 1922 - 15 April 2002
Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon. He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60. He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954. In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference. Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism. In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000. He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer.
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In search of wonder
5 editions - first published in 1956 DAISY -
A for Anything
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The dark side
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Creating short fiction
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Cities of wonder
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One hundred years of science fiction
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Orbit 21
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Orbit Eighteen
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Orbit 19
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Orbit
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In Search of Wonder
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Beyond the barrier
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Orbit 11
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The best of Damon Knight
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Orbit Fifteen
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Hell's Pavement
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Toward infinity
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A for anything
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A century of science fiction
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A century of great short science fiction novels
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A century of great short science fiction novels
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The man in the tree
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The observers
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Why do birds
2 editions - first published in 1992 Borrow -
The world and Thorinn
2 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow -
Far out
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Late Knight edition
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Beyond tomorrow
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Le pavé de l'enfer
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow; Ten Tales of the Future,
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ORBIT 7
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Orbit
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Off centre
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CV
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World without children and The Earth Quarter
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Science Fiction of the Thirties
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Orbit 5
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Better than one
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Two novels
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Humpty Dumpty
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Perchance to dream
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Charles Fort
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Why dobirds
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The dark side
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A century of great short science fiction novels
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A reasonable world
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Charles Fort: prophet of the unexplained
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Best Damon Knight
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A science fiction argosy
1 edition - first published in 1972 DAISY -
THE SECOND (2nd) OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (2) Two: Johnny Mnemonic; Fivesight; Lobotomy Shoals; On the Slab; Waiting for the Earthquake; Vox Olympica; Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams; Out of Luck; The Man Who Met Picasso; Colonel Stonesteel's...
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The golden road
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The best of Damon Knight
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A century of science fiction.
1 edition - first published in 1963 Borrow -
Beyond the barrier
1 edition - first published in 1964 Borrow -
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
1 edition - first published in 1973 Borrow -
Damon Knight's Orbit 5: the best all-new science fiction of the year.
1 edition - first published in 1969 Borrow -
Happy endings; 15 stories by the masters of the macabre
1 edition - first published in 1974 Borrow -
One side laughing
1 edition - first published in 1991 Borrow -
Orbit
1 edition - first published in 1966 Borrow -
A pocketful of stars
1 edition - first published in 1971 Borrow -
![Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/olid/OL5533912M-S.jpg)
Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man
1 edition - first published in 1967 Borrow -
Thirteen French science-fiction stories
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Far out: thirteen science fiction stories
1 edition - first published in 1962 Checked out -
The Worshippers
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American Science fiction,
Science fiction, American,
Fiction,
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Science Fiction,
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Fiction in English,
OverDrive,
Twenty-first century,
American Detective and mystery stories,
American Fantasy fiction,
American fiction,
American literature,
Anthology,
Civilization,
Detective and mystery stories, American,
Detective and mystery stories, English,
Dreams,
English Detective and mystery stories,
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Alternative names
- Damon Francis Knight
History Created April 29, 2008 · 5 revisions
| October 15, 2010 | Edited by Alan Millar | fix author names |
| October 15, 2010 | Edited by Alan Millar | merge authors |
| April 12, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added photos to author pages. |
| January 18, 2009 | Edited by caf21 | Added personal name, added fuller name, added location, added birth date, added death date, added wikipedia link, added bio, added photo |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |