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Jeff Hecht

May 30, 1947 (age 78)

Birth place: Milford, Connecticut, USA

57 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 1976 53 Essay Enriching Isotopes with Lasers Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1976
October 1976 57 Essay Letter (Algol, Fall 1976-Winter 1977) Algol, Fall 1976-Winter 1977
October 1977 68 Essay Laser Weapons - a Status Report Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1977
April 1978 78 Essay Letter (Algol, Spring 1978) Algol, #31, Spring 1978
April 1978 27 Essay Letter to The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, October 1976 The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1978
August 1978 71 Essay Letter (Algol, Summer-Fall 1978) Algol, #32, Summer-Fall 1978
August 1979 82 Essay Letter (Starship, Summer 1979) Starship, Summer 1979
November 1979 66|66.4 Essay Letter (Starship, Fall 1979) Starship, Fall 1979
August 1980 46 Essay Letter (Starship, Summer 1980) Starship, Summer 1980
1981 45 Essay Letter (Starship, Summer-Fall 1981) Starship, Summer-Fall 1981
December 1981 68 Short Fiction On 202 Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1981
December 1981 172 Essay Stars: Martian Laser Omni, December 1981
May 1982 48 Essay Smart Dinosaurs Omni, May 1982
May 1982 60 Essay Sun Guns Omni, May 1982
October 1982 82 Short Fiction Saratoga Winter Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1982
December 1982 120 Essay Fiberopolis Omni, December 1982
November 1983 32 Essay Breakthroughs: Heavy Light Omni, November 1983
April 1985 32 Essay Stars: Swiss-Cheese Universe Omni, April 1985
April 1986 32 Essay Stars: A Boring Comet? Omni, April 1986
November 1987 34 Essay Stars: Planet Stalkers Omni, November 1987
March 1989 91 Short Fiction Extinction Theory Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1989
September 1990 20 Short Fiction Boxes After Hours, Autumn 1990
December 1990 100 Short Fiction Rehearsals for Retirement Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1990
May 1991 78 Essay Global Catastrophes amd Mass Extinctions Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 1991
November 1991 126 Short Fiction The Greenhouse Papers Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November 1991
July 1995 |11 Short Fiction Engineering Reality Galaxy, July/August 1995
January 1997 74 Short Fiction A Life of Its Own Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1997
August 1997 42 Short Fiction The Saucer Man Interzone, August 1997
November 1997 40 Short Fiction The Crystal Highway Odyssey, November/December 1997
1998 46 Essay Blue Sky Science: Terraforming the Earth Odyssey, Issue 4
July 1998 48 Essay Blue Sky Science: Water on the Moon — Wet as a Bone Odyssey, July/August 1998
September 1998 32 Essay Blue Sky Science: How Big Is the Asteroid Menace? Odyssey, September/October 1998
March 1999 42 Essay The Lost Generation of Fiber Optics Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1999
April 1999 74 Short Fiction The Rumor of the Ruined City Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1999
November 2002 64 Short Fiction By the Lake Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2002
March 2004 86 Short Fiction Draft Dodger's Rag Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2004
September 2005 137 Review Beam: The Race to Make the Laser Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2005
April 2006 968 Short Fiction Directed Energy Nature, April 13, 2006
October 2006 604 Short Fiction Operation Tesla Nature, October 5, 2006
April 2007 284 Short Fiction Quantum Entanglements Nature Physics, April 2007
May 2008 562 Short Fiction The Neanderthal Correlation Nature, May 22, 2008
September 2009 51 Review Wireless New Scientist, September 19, 2009
November 2009 126 Short Fiction Clear Proof Nature, November 5, 2009
September 2010 1 Short Fiction An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade Daily Science Fiction, September 2010
September 2010 |3 Essay Future Weapons Lightspeed, September 2010
February 2011 |7 Essay Where's My Holovision? Lightspeed, February 2011
July 2011 Short Fiction Event Horizon Nature, July 21, 2011
July 2011 |5 Essay The First Step to Enlightenment is Abject Failure Lightspeed, July 2011
October 2011 |7 Essay Saving Your Brain to a Disk Lightspeed, October 2011
July 2012 Short Fiction Waiting for Chronomatic Nature, July 5, 2012
August 2013 Short Fiction The Speed of Dark Energy Nature, August 29, 2013
July 2014 538 Short Fiction The Internet of **** Things Nature Physics, July 2014
May 2015 Short Fiction When Last I Saw the Stars Nature, May 14, 2015
April 2016 Short Fiction A Slice of Time Nature, April 28, 2016
September 2019 Short Fiction Hello, Hello Nature, September 12, 2019
September 2021 Short Fiction The Clear Space Foundation Futures, September 29, 2021
August 2024 Short Fiction The Future of Mars Colony Two Futures, August 2, 2024

1 English-language book

Year Type Title Author(s)
2005 Nonfiction Beam: The Race to Make the Laser Jeff Hecht

Birth place and date from intro to his story in The Year's Best Horror Stories X.
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