Stanley Albert Schmidt (born March 7, 1944) is an American science fiction author and editor. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Biography Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his PhD in physics in 1969.
After receiving his degree, he became a professor at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy, biology, and science fiction.
Schmidt was editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine from 1978 to his retirement on 29 August 2012. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Advisers for the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and was Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 Worldcon in Baltimore, Maryland.
Literary career His first publication was "A Flash of Darkness" (Analog, September 1968); his first novel was The Sins of the Fathers (serialized in Analog from November 1973 to January 1974); and his first book was Newton and the Quasi-Apple in 1975.
One of his most recent novels, Argonaut (2002), shows an alien invasion from a new angle.
Awards and honors He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor every year from 1980 through 2006 (its final year), and for the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form every year from 2007 (its first year) through 2013. He won the Hugo for the first time in 2013. In 2013 he was awarded a Special Committee Award for his editorial work.
He was awarded a 2014 Solstice Award, since renamed Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award.
Bibliography
Novels
Originally published as a four–part serial in Analog Science Fiction and Fact during 2015.
Kyyra series
See also the Lifeboat Earth collection of stories below.
Short fiction collections
Stories Short stories unless otherwise noted.
The Reluctant Ambassadors (1968) . . . And Comfort to the Enemy (1969) Lost Newton (1970) May the Best Man Win (1971) The Unreachable Stars (1971) The Prophet (1972) His Loyal Opposition (1976) Panic (1978) A Midsummer Newt's Dream (1979) Camouflage (1981) Tweedlioop (1981) Mascots (1982) War of Independence (1982) The Folks Who Live on the Hill (1984) Floodgate (1988) The Man on the Cover (1990) Worthsayer (1992) Not Even a Chimney (1993) Johnny Birdseed (1993) The Parallels of Penzance (1998) with Michael A. Burstein Good Intentions (1998) with Jack McDevitt Generation Gap (2000) The Emperor's Revenge (2002) Lifeboat Earth series A Thrust of Greatness (1976) Caesar Clark (1977) Pinocchio (1977) Dark Age (1977) The Promised Land (1978) Second Interlude (1978) First Interlude (1978) Third Interlude (1978) Fourth Interlude (1978)
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotesA Flash of Darkness1968Prologue1978Opportunity Knocks2014 Night Ride and Sunrise – Part I of IV2015Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)SerialNight Ride and Sunrise – Part II of IV2015Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)SerialNight Ride and Sunrise – Part III of IV2015Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)SerialNight Ride and Sunrise – Part IV of IV2015Later published (with the other three parts) as the novel Night Ride and Sunrise (2017)Serial
Anthologies (edited) Unknown (1988) Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (1988) with Martin H. Greenberg Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (1996) with Robert M. Zubrin Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998) with Gardner Dozois Analog anthologies Analog Yearbook II (1981) The Analog Anthology #1 (1980) also appeared as: Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology (1981) and Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction From Analog (1981) The Analog Anthology #2 (1982) also appeared as: Analog: Readers' Choice (1982) Analog's Children of the Future (1982) Analog's Lighter Side (1982) Analog: Writers' Choice (1983) Analog's War and Peace (1983) Aliens from Analog (1983) Analog: Writers' Choice, Volume II (1984) Analog's From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication (1984) Analog's Expanding Universe (1986) 6 Decades: The Best of Analog (1986)
Nonfiction Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (1991) with Ian Randal Strock and Gardner Dozois and Tina Lee and Sheila Williams Aliens and Alien Societies: A Writer's Guide to Creating Extraterrestrial Life-Forms (1996)
Interviews
Notes
References
External links Stanley Schmidt's SFWA biography Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine Stanley Schmidt's homepage at SFWA.org 2012 interview at Locus 20-minute interview with Stanley Schmidt, 12/08