Stine, G Harry
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1928-1997) US author who published most of his early work, most of it Children's SF, as by Lee Correy, but who in the 1980s began increasingly to publish fiction under his own name; his popularizing nonfiction about space travel and satellites had always been released under his own name, however, as was his first story, "Galactic Gadgeteers" in Astounding for May 1951. As Correy, his best-known sf tale is "'... And a Star to Steer Her By'" (June 1953 Astounding), to which his first novel, a juvenile, Starship through Space (1954), is a sequel. There soon followed another juvenile, Rocket Man (1955), and Contraband Rocket (1956 dos), about amateurs launching a Spaceship. Stine's Hard SF preoccupation with Space Flight never, in fact, faltered, and although many years passed before his next novel as Correy, his urgent advocacy of the space programme remained as attractively fresh as ever. Star Driver (1980), Shuttle Down (December 1980-March 1981 Analog; 1981), Space Doctor (1981), Manna (May-July 1983 Analog; 1984) and A Matter of Metalaw (1986), all as Correy, variously work to increase the sense of the reality of space, an agenda perhaps less evident in The Abode of Life (1982), a Star Trek tie.
Under his own name, Stine's fiction was less ambitious, being restricted mainly to the Near-Future Warbots sequence, beginning with Warbots (1988) and ending with Warbots #12: Judgment Day (1992), in which humans and Machines clashingly interface as the US Robot Infantry fights evil everywhere. A second series, the Starsea Invaders sequence comprising First Action (1993), Second Contact (1994) and Third Encounter (1995) is not dissimilar.
Nonfiction works of sf interest focused on space, and on America's need to gain access to the solar system. Stine did not waver in his advocacy of space exploration, an advocacy which inspired a number of books, including Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority (1957), Rocket Power and Space Flight (1957), The Third Industrial Revolution (1980), Shuttle into Space: A Ride in America's Space Transportation (1978), The Space Enterprise (1980), Space Power (1981), Confrontation in Space (1981), The Hopeful Future (1983), The Silicon Gods (1984), Handbook for Space Colonists (1985), Handbook of Model Rocketry (1994) and Halfway to Anywhere: Achieving America's Destiny in Space (1996). Much of this work reflects Stine's Science Fact column for Analog, which appeared intermittently between 1961 and 1996. [JC]
George Harry Stine
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 26 March 1928
died Phoenix, Arizona: 2 November 1997
works
series
Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Abode of Life (New York: Pocket Books/Timescape, 1982) [tie to the Star Trek universe: Star Trek: pb/Rowena Morrill]
Warbots
- Warbots (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1988) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #2: Operation Steel Band (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1988) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #3: The Bastaard Rebellion (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1988) [spelling is sic: Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #4: Sierra Madre (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1988) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #5: Operation High Dragon (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1989) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #6: The Lost Battalion (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1989) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #7: Operation Iron Fist (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1989) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #8: Force of Arms (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1990) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #9: Blood Siege (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1990) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #10: Guts and Glory (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1991) [Warbots: pb/Catherine Huerta]
- Warbots #11: Warrior Shield (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1992) [Warbots: pb/]
- Warbots #12: Judgment Day (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1992) [Warbots: pb/]
Starsea Invaders
- First Action (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1993) [Starsea Invaders: pb/Luis Royo]
- Second Contact (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1994) [Starsea Invaders: pb/Luis Royo]
- Third Encounter (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1995) [Starsea Invaders: pb/]
individual titles
- Starship through Space (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954) as by Lee Correy [hb/Bill Llewellyn]
- Rocket Man (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955) as by Lee Correy [hb/William J Waggoner]
- Contraband Rocket (New York: Ace Books, 1956) as by Lee Correy [dos: pb/Ed Valigursky]
- Star Driver (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1980) [pb/Attila Hejja]
- Shuttle Down (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1981) [first appeared December 1980-March 1981 Analog: pb/Bill Schmidt]
- Space Doctor (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1981) [pb/Rick Sternbach]
- Manna (New York: DAW Books, 1984) [first appeared May-July 1983 Analog: pb/Vincent Di Fate]
- A Matter of Metalaw (New York: DAW Books, 1986) [pb/John Harris]
nonfiction
- Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority (New York: Ace Books, 1957) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Rocket Power and Space Flight (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1957) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Third Industrial Revolution (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1980) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Shuttle into Space: A Ride in America's Space Transportation (Chicago, Illinois: Follett Publishing, 1978) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Space Enterprise (New York: Ace Books, 1980) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Space Power (New York: Ace Books, 1981) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Confrontation in Space (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1981) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Hopeful Future (New York: Macmillan, 1983) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Silicon Gods (New York: Dell Books, 1984) [nonfiction: pb/Robert Tinney]
- Handbook for Space Colonists (New York: M Evans and Company, 1985) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Handbook of Model Rocketry (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Halfway to Anywhere: Achieving America's Destiny in Space (New York: M Evans and Company, 1996) [nonfiction: hb/]
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