Fontenay, Charles L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1917-2007) US newspaperman and author, born in Brazil and raised in Tennessee from infancy, where he worked as a newspaperman for about half a century. He was a member of the If stable from the publication of his first story, "Disqualified", in September 1954, which he began much later to assemble in the incomplete Here, There and Elsewhen sequence of collected stories; he also wrote three somewhat routine sf novels over the next decade: Twice Upon a Time (1958 dos), Rebels of the Red Planet (1961 dos), an intrigue set on Mars, and The Day the Oceans Overflowed (1964), in which the manner of their doing so is scientifically ill-motivated. After his retirement he returned to writing sf with the long Kipton sequence of juveniles featuring the eponymous young girl in various adventures on Earth and in space, beginning with Kipton & Gruff (1995). Target: Grant, 1892 (1999) is a Time Travel tale whose Jonbar Point for an attempted creation of an Alternate History is the Civil War; Modál: A Tale of Mind and Body, Love and Heroism, in a Possible Future World (2000) begins an unfinished Ruined Earth sequence. Epistle to the Babylonians: An Essay on the Natural Inequality of Pain (1969), nonfiction, deals in part with the philosophy of science. [JC]
Charles Louis Fontenay
born Sao Paolo, Brazil: 17 March 1917
died Memphis, Tennessee: 27 January 2007
works
series
Kipton
- Kipton & Gruff (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1995) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Ovoid (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton in Wonderland (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Monkey's Uncle (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton: Murder on the Stage (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Tower of Time (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Christmas Gift (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Android (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1997) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton & the I Ching (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1997) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton & the Voodoo Curse (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1998) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Caves of Mars (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1998) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton at the Martian Games (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1998) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Monorail Murders (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton on Phobos (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Matter Transmitter (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Martian Maidens (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Delusions of Tante Else (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Kipton and the Riddle of Sandstone (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1999) [Kipton: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
Target: Grant
- Target: Grant, 1862 (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press/Silk Label, 1999) [pb/John Gampert]
- Target: Grant, 1892 (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press/Silk Label, 1999) [pb/John Gampert]
individual titles
- Twice Upon a Time (New York: Ace Books, 1958) [dos: pb/Ed Emshwiller]
- Rebels of the Red Planet (New York: Ace Books, 1961) [dos: pb/Ed Valigursky]
- The Day the Oceans Overflowed (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1964) [pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- Target: Grant, 1892 (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press/Silk Label, 1999) [pb/John Gampert]
- Modál: A Tale of Mind and Body, Love and Heroism, in a Possible Future World (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press/ Silk Label, 2000) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Here, There and Elsewhen (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 1998) [coll: Here, There and Elsewhen: pb/]
- Here, There and Elsewhen: Volume 2: The Solar System and Beyond (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 2001) [coll: Here, There and Elsewhen: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Here, There and Elsewhen: Volume 3: Now and Elsewhen (Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks Press, 2001) [coll: Here, There and Elsewhen: pb/Mary Hanson-Roberts]
- Wind (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2007) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1959 Amazing: na/]
- The Gift Bearer (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1958 Amazing: na/]
- The Jupiter Weapon (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1959 Amazing: na/]
- Service with a Smile (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared June 1958 If: na/]
- Atom Drive (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1956 Amazing: na/]
nonfiction
- Epistle to the Babylonians: An Essay on the Natural Inequality of Pain (Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1969) [nonfiction: hb/]
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