Robert F Young – författare

Robert Franklin Young (1915–1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. Although his career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died, he remained little known by the public, in the United States as well as abroad. He started publishing in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier’s. His work had a poetic and romantic style that many compared to Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon.This volume collects 20 of his science fiction and fantasy stories:

THE BLACK DEEP THOU WINGESTTHE GARDEN IN THE FORESTAUDIENCE REACTIONBEAUTY AND THE BEASTSTOP-OVERA PATTERN FOR PENELOPESAINT JULIE AND THE VISGITHE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREETONE LOVE HAVE ITHE QUALITY OF MERCYTHE GROWN-UP PEOPLE’S FEETPRISONERS OF EARTHTHE FIRST SWEET SLEEP OF NIGHTPROMISED PLANETTHE QUETENESTEL TOWERSAN APPLE FOR THE TEACHERJUNGLE DOCTORMORE STATELY MANSIONS LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSETHE OTHER KIDS

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AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHERJUNGLE DOCTORMORE STATELY MANSIONSLITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSETHE OTHER KIDSWISH UPON A STARADDED INDUCEMENTAPE’S EYE VIEWPILGRIMS’ PROJECTYOUR GHOST WILL WALKGODDESS IN GRANITETHE COURTS OF JAMSHYDWRITTEN IN THE STARSSTRUCTURAL DEFECTTHIRTY DAYS HAD SEPTEMBERREPORT ON THE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR ON ARCTURUS XTHE BLUEBIRD PLANETTHE LEAFMAGIC WINDOWACRE IN THE SKY

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She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten Flagstad, and her name was Isolde.

Melanie learns the perils of being a witch in the suburbs. Neighborhood wives, gossip, insipid social gatherings... These are the perils she must face. Is magic really worth it?

Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were "the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the obese, the great collectors..."

A classic tale by Robert F. Young.

The King Arthur Super Pack is the most complete collection of Arthurian literature ever assembled. There are more than two thousand pages of amazing literature here. There are more than a dozen major works included in this collection, as well as a number of works of interest to Arthurian fans. Journey back in time to the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, when magic and chivalry ruled the land. Included in this omnibus edition are: ‘Le Morte D''Arthur’ by Sir Thomas Malory; ‘Idylls of the King’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson; ‘A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur''s Court’ by Mark Twain; ‘Erec et Enide’ by Chrétien de Troyes; ‘The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights’ by Sir James Knowles; ‘Stories of King Arthur''s Knights: Told to the Children’ by Mary MacGregor; ‘Stories of King Arthur and His Knights’ by U. Waldo Cutler; ‘King Arthur''s Knights: The Tales Re-Told for Boys & Girls’ by Henry Gilbert; ‘Stories from Le Morte D''Arthur and the Mabinogion’ by Beatrice Clay; ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’ by Rupert S. Holland; ‘The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon’ by Geoffrey of Monmouth; ‘Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale’ by Charlton Miner Lewis; ‘Merlin’s Youth’ by George Parker Bidder; ‘Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys’ translated by Jessie L. Weston; ‘Merlin the Enchanter’ by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; ‘King Arthur at Avalon’ by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; ‘Sir Lancelot of the Lake’ by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ translated by Jessie Weston; ‘The Story of King Arthur and His Knights’ by Howard Pyle; ‘The Story of the Champions of the Round Table’ by Howard Pyle; ‘The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions’ by Howard Pyle; ‘The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur’ by Howard Pyle; ‘A Knyght Ther Was’ by Robert F. Young; ‘The Egyptian Maid or The Romance of the Water-Lily’ by William Wordsworth; ‘Merlin and Vivien’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson; ‘Merlin’s Song’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson; ‘Gawain and the Lady of Avalon’ by George Augustus Simcox; and ‘The Marriage of Sir Gawaine’ by Bishop Thomas Percy.

We’ve often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know! He’d chill us to the bone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth, exactly as he has done here. And thrill us, too—with the liveliest kind of entertainment.

All peoples have their myths of wanderers through time who, though they may not end their own sufferings, have the power to help others save themselves . . . Such a one was the gaunt man.Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

In Science Fiction, of the many things an author can do is to take an established trend and carry it on to extremities. Such stories are rarely good prophecy, since they cannot foresee other developments of the future which are most likely to modify the trend with which they are dealing. But such stories make good reading nonetheless, and can be delightfully unpleasant as in the present instance.Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile—and avaricious—one-manRobert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

A thrilling news bulletin, dated September 11, 1996, was recently handed to me by an assistant who is too young to remember the star over Moscow, and it is toward him and others like him that the following history is directed. If it resembles fiction more than it does fact, the similarity is wholly intentional, for it is only through fiction that the past can be brought back to life. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten Flagstad, and her name was Isolde.Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

The ancient stresses were ready to tear the earth apart, and only Anton Burke was ready. He planned to choose his passenger-list with care. But when the time came, his space-ship Ark was empty—save for the strangest friends a man could have on a journey to the stars. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

He had a beautiful wife. But the girl he really loved came out of a slot machine — warm and soft and clinging and unalive.Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

Godhead can be more than a guilt complex growing out of the knowledge of good and evil. It can also be a sense of fulfillment that comes from the ability to create.Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

Which answers mankind’s problems better: a stern god or a tolerant one? And what do you do if you have the power to decide it either way?Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

We doubt if the real television people will ever go as far as the fictional ones in this story. But if they do—wow! Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

She was the Galaxy’s most beautiful whore. He knew that if he went to her couch during the time-storm, he, too, would be bookingRobert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

A man under sentence of marriage would be lucky to have a girl like Julia assigned to him—or would he?Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

To love a saint is hard. To be one, that is harder. But rejoice, now in the search of Capt. Nathaniel Drake for Saint Annabelle Leigh. For you will read this story many times in the future, as it assumes what will be its rightful reputation as a classic. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

These were shocking things she said—shocking in their strangeness—contradicting everything . . . Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.

Looking for a bluebird in that perfectly laid-out utopian suburb was not always quite as easy as the blueprints had provided—in fact it was rather the reverse!Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.