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Katherine MacLean

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Katherine MacLean (1925- )
Katherine Anne MacLean is an American science fiction writer best known for her short stories of the 1950s. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, MacLean received a BA in economics from Barnard College, New York, and did postgraduate study in psychology. Her first published short story was "Defense Mechanism", which appeared in Astounding in October 1949. Over the decades MacLean has continued to write whilst being employed in a wide variety of jobs - as book reviewer, economic graphanalyst, editor, EKG technician, food analyst, laboratory technician in penicillin research, nurse's aide, office manager and payroll bookkeeper, photographer and pollster, to name a few. Much of her later work features psi powers as a central theme.

Katherine MacLean Books

The Carnivore book cover

The Carnivore

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Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1 book cover

Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1

Edgar Pangborn
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2 book cover

Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2

H. Beam Piper
Contagion book cover

Contagion

Katherine MacLean
Contagion book cover

Contagion

Katherine MacLean
The 29th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Katherine MacLean book cover

The 29th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Katherine MacLean

Katherine MacLean
Missing Man book cover

Missing Man

Katherine MacLean
The Trouble With You Earth People book cover

The Trouble With You Earth People

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The Diploids book cover

The Diploids

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