Richmond, Leigh
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1911-1995) US author who began publishing with Prologue to an Analogue (June 1961 Analog; 2009 ebook). Her further stories and her several sf novels were mostly written and published in collaboration with her husband, Walt Richmond; three novels were revised by her after his death. Almost all their work together expressed a sense – one formally presented by the Centric Foundation which they founded and directed – that scientific breakthroughs could be made by young minds freed of the bureaucratic artifices of orthodox scientific thinking; unfortunately, overloaded Space-Opera plotting did little to make their novels convincing emblems of this new clarity, and the exaggerated individualism they expressed seemed less mould-breaking than nostalgic. They published frequently in Analog, which also ran the one-off collaboration "There is a Tide" (January 1968 Analog) by Leigh Richmond and R C FitzPatrick.
Novels by Leigh and Walter Richmond were Shock Waves (1967 dos), The Lost Millennium (1967 dos; rev vt Siva! 1979), which typically suggests that a new source of solar energy was first exploited by prehistoric Supermen, Phoenix Ship (1969 dos; rev vt Phase Two 1980), Gallagher's Glacier (1970 dos; rev 1979), which depicts a Dystopian galaxy run by private corporations, Challenge the Hellmaker (October-November 1963 Analog as "'Where I Wasn't Going'"; exp 1976) and The Probability Corner (1977). Stories were collected as Positive Charge (coll 1970 dos). A further sf novel published after long silence is Blindsided (1993) as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, with Dick Richmond-Donahue. [JC/DRL]
Leigh Tucker Richmond
born 21 April 1911
died Haywood, North Carolina: 14 July 1995
works
- Shock Wave (New York: Ace Books, 1967) with Walt Richmond [dos: pb/Hoot von Zitzewitz]
- The Lost Millennium (New York: Ace Books, 1967) with Walt Richmond [dos: pb/Jack Gaughan]
- Phoenix Ship (New York: Ace Books, 1969) with Walt Richmond [dos: pb/Jack Gaughan]
- Gallagher's Glacier (New York: Ace Books, 1970) with Walt Richmond [dos: with Positive Charge below: pb/Kelly Freas]
- Gallagher's Glacier (New York: Ace Books, 1979) with Walt Richmond [rev of the above: pb/John Rush]
- Challenge the Hellmaker (New York: Ace Books, 1976) with Walt Richmond [first appeared October-November 1963 Analog as "'Where I Wasn't Going'": in the publisher's second Science Fiction Special series: pb/Dean Ellis]
- Where I Wasn't Going (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) with Walt Richmond [ebook: vt of the above: reprinting original serial: first appeared October-November 1963 Analog: na/]
- The Probability Corner (New York: Ace Books, 1977) with Walt Richmond [pb/uncredited]
- Blindsided (Lakemont, Georgia: Interdimensional Sciences, 1993) as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, with Dick Richmond-Donahue [pb/]
collections and stories
- Positive Charge (New York: Ace Books, 1970) with Walt Richmond [coll: dos: with Gallagher's Glacier above: pb/Kelly Freas]
- Poppa Needs Shorts (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) with Walt Richmond [story: ebook: first appeared January 1964 Analog: na/]
- Prologue to an Analogue (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared June 1961 Analog: na/]
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