McDONOUGH, Thomas R(edmond)
- McDONOUGH, Thomas R(edmond)
(1945-)
US writer and lecturer in engineering at Caltech. He is perhaps best known for his nonfiction and for serving as the coordinator of the SETI programme of the Planetary Society. The Search for ExtraterrestrialIntelligence (1987) argues the case for seeking out First Contact with other races in the Galaxy. Much of his earlier work was also nonfiction, beginning with "They're Trying to Tell Us Something" for ASF in 1969, which likewise concerned SETI matters. He began to publish fiction only in 1979 with "Statues of the Gods" for Starlog. His first novel, TheArchitects of Hyperspace (1987), features a clearly argued HARD-SF vision of a Galaxy containing at least one artificial toroidal world; there is also sophisticated speculation about the growth of civilizations throughout the Universe. Yet it is narrated in an only intermittently humorous pulp style, and features at least one bibulous Irishman. The Missing Matter (1992) provides a similar mix of intriguingly couchedcognition and comic turns.
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Other work: Space: The Next 25 Years (1987; rev 1989).
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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