Dan Morgan (writer)

Dan Morgan
Dan Morgan (right) with his literary and musical collaborator John Kippax, c.1957
Dan Morgan (right) with his literary and musical collaborator John Kippax, c.1957
Born(1925-12-24)24 December 1925
Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England
Died4 November 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 85)
Lincolnshire
OccupationAuthor, guitarist
NationalityBritish
GenreScience fiction

Dan Morgan (24 December 1925 – 4 November 2011) was an English science fiction writer and a professional guitarist, mainly active as a writer from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. In addition to his fiction, he wrote two manuals relating to his musical profession.

Morgan is best known for his "Sixth Perception" novels, featuring a group of characters possessed of psychic powers; the three "Venturer Twelve" space operas, co-authored with his colleague John Kippax (a fourth was written by Kippax alone); and the somewhat tongue-in-cheek novel The Richest Corpse in Show Business.[1]

Bibliography[edit]

Science fiction[edit]

The Sixth Perception[edit]

  • The New Minds (1967)
  • The Several Minds (1969)
  • The Mind Trap (1970))
  • The Country of the Mind (1975)

Venturer Twelve[edit]

See info in the John Kippax page

Other novels[edit]

  • Cee Tee Man (1955)
  • The Uninhibited (1961)
  • The Richest Corpse in Show Business (1967)
  • Inside (1971)
  • The High Destiny (1973)
  • The Concrete Horizon (1976)

Short stories[edit]

  • "Alien Analysis" (1952)
  • "Amateur Talent" (1953)
  • "Home Is Tomorrow" (1953)
  • "Cleansing Fires" (1954)
  • "Forgive Them" (1954)
  • "Psychic Twin" (1954)
  • "Jerry Built" (1954)
  • "Alcoholic Ambassador" (1954)
  • "Trojan Hearse" (with John Kippax) (1954)
  • "Kwakiutl" (1955)
  • "The Lesser Breed" (1955)
  • "Life Agency" (1955)
  • "The Earth Never Sets" (1956)
  • "The Way I Am" (1956)
  • "The Whole Armour" (1956)
  • "The Little Fleet" (1956)
  • "Controlled Flight" (1956)
  • "Wunkle" (1956)
  • "Beast of the Field" (1956)
  • "More than Hormone" (1956)
  • "The Humanitarian" (1957)
  • "The Unwanted" (1958)
  • "The Star Game" (1958)
  • "The Hard Way" (1958)
  • "Insecurity Risk" (1959)
  • "Protected Planet" (1959)
  • "Drive Out of Mind" (1960)
  • "Stopover Earth" (1961)
  • "Father" (1961)
  • "Emreth" (1965)
  • "Parking Problem" (1965)
  • "Third Party" (1965)
  • "Scramble" (1971)
  • "Canary" (1972)
  • "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" (1974)
  • "Young Tom" (1976)
  • "Love in Limbo" (2003)

Nonfiction[edit]

Manuals[edit]

  • Guitar (1965)
  • Spanish Guitar (1982)

Letters[edit]

  • "Letter" (Vector 60) (1972)
  • "Letter" (Vector 61) (1972)
  • "Letter" (Vector 62) (1972)

Obituaries[edit]

References[edit]

Notes
  1. ^ John Clute in Clute and Nicholls 1995, p. 830.
Bibliography
  • Clute, John and Peter Nicholls. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin's Griffin, 1993 (2nd edition 1995). ISBN 0-312-13486-X.

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