Theodore Cogswell

Theodore R. Cogswell, (born 1918, died 1987), was an American science fiction author. His first published story was The Specter General (Astounding Jun 1952), a humourous story in which a long forgotten maintenance brigade of the Imperial Navy reinvigorates the Empire. Never a prolific writer, he wrote less than forty science fiction stories, most in a similar lighthearted vein as his first.

He was also the editor of the longrunning "fanzine for pros", Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies, a collection of which was published in 1993. In this, writers and editors discussed their and each others' works.

Books

• The Wall Around the World (1962) (short stories)
• The Third Eye (1968) (short stories)
• Spock Messiah (1976) (Star Trek novel with Charles A. Spano, Jr)
• PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies (1993)

During the Spanish Civil War he served as an ambulance driver on the Republican side.

--Mwisse 14:31, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)