Dan Morgan (writer)

Dan Morgan
Dan Morgan (right) with his literary and musical collaborator John Kippax, c.1957
Born	(1925-12-24)24 December 1925 Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England
Died	4 November 2011(2011-11-04) (aged 85) Lincolnshire
Occupation	Author, guitarist
Nationality	British
Genre	Science 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

Science fiction

The Sixth Perception

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

Venturer Twelve

See also: John Kippax

• A Thunder of Stars (with John Kippax) (1968)
• Seed of Stars (with John Kippax) (1972)
• The Neutral Stars (with John Kippax) (1973)

Other novels

• 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

• "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

Manuals

• Guitar (1965)
• Spanish Guitar (1982)

Letters

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

Obituaries

• "Edward John Carnell 1912 – 1972" (with Harry Harrison, Ted Tubb and Brian W. Aldiss) (1972)
• "John Kippax Dies" (1974)

References

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.

External links

• Dan Morgan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database