Colin Kapp (1928—) is the author of a number of science fiction novels and short stories. 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

He was a contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White. He is most famous for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers. His 1984 short story "Something in the City" was eerily prescient about the current situation faced by the US military in Iraq. In this story, soldiers occupying a Middle Eastern country after overthrowing a dictator are being picked off by booby traps (similar to IED's) controlled by an artificial intelligence left behind by the defeated dictator. Brian Wilson Aldiss (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. ... James White (April 7, 1928 - August 23, 1999) was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. ... Bold textThe Unorthodos EngineersBold textled by Bold textFriz Van NoonBold text showed up in Italic textNew worlds Italic textOct. ...

Published works

This is a partial list.

Cageworld series

1. Search for the sun! (1982)
2. The Lost worlds of Cronus (1982)
3. The Tyrant of Hades (1984)
4. Star Search (1984)

Chaos series

• The Patterns of Chaos (1972)
• The Chaos Weapon (1977)

The Patterns of Chaos is a science-fiction novel by Colin Kapp. ...

Other novels

• The Dark Mind
• Manalone
• The Wizard of Anharitte

Short stories

Unorthodox Engineers

• The Railways Up on Cannis (1959)
• The Subways of Tazoo (1964)
• The Pen and the Dark (1966)
• Getaway from Getawehi (1969)
• The Black Hole of Negrav (1975)

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Others

• Survival Problem (1959)
• Breaking Point (1959)
• Lambda I (1962)
• The Night-Flame (1964)
• Hunger Over Sweet Waters (1965)
• The Imagination Trap (1967)
• Ambassador to Verdammt (1967)
• I Bring You Hands (1968)
• The Cloudbuilders (1968)
• The Teacher (1969)
• Gottlos (1969)
• Letter from an Unknown Genius (1971)
• Which Way Do I Go For Jericho? (1972)
• What the Thunder Said (1972)
• The Old King's Answers (1973)
• Crimescan (1973)
• War of the Wastelife (1974)
• Mephisto and the Ion Explorer (1974)
• Cassius and the Mind-Jaunt (1975)
• Something in the City (1984)
• An Alternative to Salt (1986)

External links

• Biography (archived)

• Bibliography kept by Jarl Totland
• Colin Kapp at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography at SciFan