C. C. MacApp

C. C. MacApp, pseudonym of Carroll Mather Capps (27 November 1917 – 15 January 1971)^[1] was an American science fiction author. He was also a long-time benefactor of San Francisco chess. MacApp was a former president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, and won the Northern California and San Francisco chess championship several times.^[2] He also wrote as Carroll J. Clem.^[3]

As listed in Fantastic Fiction^[4]

• Omha Abides (1968)
• Prisoners of the Sky (1969)
• Secret of the Sunless World (as Carroll M. Capps, 1969)
• Worlds of the Wall (1969)
• Recall Not Earth (1970)
• SUBB (1971)
• Bumsider (1972)

Published in Galaxy Science Fiction:

• "The Drug" Galaxy, February 1961
• "And All the Earth a Grave" Galaxy, December 1963
• "A Flask of Fine Arcturan" Galaxy, February 1965
• "Sculptor" Galaxy, April 1965
• "The Mercurymen" Galaxy, December 1965
• "Spare That Tree" Galaxy, June 1967

Published in Worlds of If:

• "Prisoners of the Sky", Worlds of If, February 1966
• "The Impersonators", Worlds of If, January 1967
• "When Sea is Born Again", Worlds of If, May 1967
• "A Ticket to Zenner"", Worlds of If, July 1967
• "The Fortunes of Peace", Worlds of If, September 1967
• "Winter of the Llangs", Worlds of If, October 1967
• "Mail Drop", Worlds of If, November 1967
• "Where the Subbs Go", Worlds of If, May 1968
• "The Hides of Marrech", Worlds of If, July 1968
• "Dream Street", Worlds of If, September 1968
• "Mad Ship", Worlds of If, May 1969

This space opera series ran in Worlds of If alongside Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series and Keith Laumer's tales of Retief, the galactic diplomat.

• "The Slavers of Gree", Worlds of If, August 1964
• "Gree's Commandos", Worlds of If, February 1965
• "Gree's Hellcats", Worlds of If, April 1965
• "No Friend of Gree", Worlds of If, June 1965
• "Gree's Damned Ones", Worlds of If, September 1965
• "Enemies of Gree", Worlds of If, September 1966
• "The Sign of Gree", Worlds of If, November 1966
• "A Beachhead for Gree", Worlds of If, February 1967

His novella The Mercurymen was a finalist for the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

• Works by C. C. MacApp at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about C. C. MacApp at the Internet Archive
• Works by C. C. MacApp at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• C. C. MacApp at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database