RICHMOND, Leigh (Tucker)

(1911-)

   US writer who began publishing with "Prologue to an Analogue" for ASF in 1961, and who wrote some solo stories. Her several sf novels were all in collaboration with her husband, Walt RICHMOND; 3 were revised by LR after his death. Almost all their work together expressed a sense - one formally presented by the Centric Foundation which they founded and directed - that scientific breakthroughs could be made by young minds freed of the bureaucratic artifices of orthodox scientific thinking; unfortunately, overloaded SPACE-OPERA plotting did little to make their novels convincing emblems of this new clarity, and the exaggerated individualism they expressed seemed less mould-breaking than nostalgic. They published frequently in ASF. Their novels were Shock Waves (1967dos), The Lost Millennium (1967 dos; rev vt Siva! 1979), which typically suggests that a new source of solar energy was first exploited by prehistoric supermen, Phoenix Ship (1969 dos; rev vt Phase Two 1980), Gallagher's Glacier (1970 dos; rev 1979), Challenge the Hellmaker (1963ASF as "Where I Wasn't Going"; exp 1976) and The Probability Corner (1977). Stories were collected as Positive Charge (coll 1970 dos).

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