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Jack Speer

Speer, John Bristol

August 9, 1920 – June 28, 2008 (aged 87)

Birth place: Comanche, Oklahoma, USA

14 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 1934 509|509.1 Essay Letter (A Sequel to "Martian Odyssey") Wonder Stories, September 1934
January 1935 996|996.2 Essay Letter (The Law of Inverse Squares) Wonder Stories, January 1935
March 1935 156|156.5 Essay Letter (Astounding Stories, March 1935): Here It Is! Astounding Stories, March 1935
October 1937 159|159.1 Essay Letter (Astounding Stories, October 1937): Information Wanted: Astounding Stories, October 1937
May 1938 157 Essay Letter (Astounding, May 1938): If the Picture Is Good, Captions Aren't Needed for That Scene. But Understanding the Picture Is Helped If What Lead Up to or Resulted from the Pictured Scene Is Told. Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1938
August 1939 120|120.3 Essay Letter (Science Fiction, August 1939) Science Fiction, August 1939
October 1939 124 Essay Letter (Coming out from Behind) Science Fiction, October 1939
April 1940 14|14.4 Essay Letter (Horizons, April 1940) Horizons, April 1940
August 1942 99 Essay Probability Zero! (Astounding, August 1942) Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1942
August 1942 100 Short Fiction The Image of Annihilation Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1942
January 1945 153 Essay Letter (Astounding, January 1945): Geography and Cosmography? Astounding Science Fiction, January 1945
May 1945 134 Essay Letter (Astounding, May 1945): More People May Mean More Thought. Astounding Science Fiction, May 1945
December 1946 176 Essay Letter (Astounding, December 1946): Yep, We Did Get a Raft of Letters! Astounding Science Fiction, December 1946
March 1978 184|184.2 Essay Letter (Asimov's, March-April 1978) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March-April 1978

1 English-language book

Year Type Title Author(s)
2004 Nonfiction Fancestral Voices Jack Speer

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2020 Retro Hugo Award Best Related Work Fancyclopedia Runner-up
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