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Damon Knight

(Damon Francis Knight)

(1922 - 2002)
Husband of Kate Wilhelm

Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.

Awards: Hugo (2001), Nebula (1995) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Western

Series

CV
   1. CV (1985)
   2. The Observers (1988)
   3. A Reasonable World (1991)

Novels

   Hell's Pavement (1955)
     aka The Analogue Men
   A for Anything (1959)
   Masters of Evolution (1959)
   The People Maker (1959)
   The Sun Saboteurs (1961)
   Beyond the Barrier (1964)
   Mind Switch (1965)
     aka The Other Foot
   Off Centre (1965)
   The Rithian Terror (1965)
   The Earth Quarter (1970)
   World without Children (1970)
   The World and Thorinn (1980)
   The Man in the Tree (1984)
   Double Meaning (1991)
   God's Nose (1991)
   Why Do Birds (1992)
   Humpty Dumpty (1996)

Collections

   Far Out (1961)
   In Deep (1963)
   Turning On (1966)
   Natural State (1975)
   The Best of Damon Knight (1976)
   Damon Knight Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1979)
   Rule Golden (1979)
   Better than One (1980) (with Kate Wilhelm)
   Late Knight Edition (1985)
   One Side Laughing (1991)
   The Star Beast (2010)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Avenger (1944)
   Doorway to Kal-Jmar (1944)
   Definition (1953)
   The Worshippers (1953)
   Special Delivery (1954)
   A Likely Story (1955)

Anthologies edited

   A Century of Science Fiction (1962)
   First Flight (1963)
   A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (1964)
   Tomorrow X 4 (1964)
   13 French Science Fiction Stories (1965)
   Beyond Tomorrow (1965)
   The Dark Side (1965)
   Cities of Wonder (1966)
   Orbit 1 (1966)
   Orbit 2 (1967)
   Science Fiction Inventions (1967)
   The Shape of Things (1967)
   Worlds to Come (1967)
   The Metal Smile (1968)
   One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
   Orbit 3 (1968)
   Orbit 4 (1968)
   Towards Infinity (1968)
   Orbit 5 (1969)
   Dimension X (1970)
   Orbit 6 (1970)
   Orbit 7 (1970)
   Orbit 8 (1970)
   Orbit 9 (1972)
   A Science Fiction Argosy (1972)
   A Pocketful of Stars (1972)
   Orbit 10 (1972)
   Orbit 11 (1972)
   Perchance to Dream (1973)
   Orbit 12 (1973)
   Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1973)
   The Golden Road (1973)
   Elsewhere X 3 (1974)
   Orbit 15 (1974)
   A Shocking Thing (1974)
   Orbit 13 (1974)
   Happy Endings (1974)
   Orbit 14 (1974)
   Orbit 16 (1975)
   Orbit 17 (1975)
   Science Fiction of the Thirties (1976)
   Orbit 18 (1976)
   The Best from Orbit (1976)
   Orbit 19 (1977)
   First Contact (1978)
   Science Fiction of the 40s (1978) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Western Classics from the Great Pulps (1978)
   Orbit 20 (1978)
   Orbit 21 (1980)
   First Voyages (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   The Clarion Awards (1984)
   Westerns of the 40's (1998)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
1. Nebula Award Stories 1 (1966)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Damon Knight

Black Cat Weekly #138 (2024)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 138)

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Black Cat Weekly #57 (2022)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 57)

More books

Awards

	2001 Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story : To Serve Man
	1995 Grand Master Award

Award nominations

	1979 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 20
	1977 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 18
	1977 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : I See You
	1976 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Science Fiction of the Thirties
	1976 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 16
	1976 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : The Best from Orbit
	1975 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 15
	1975 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 14
	1975 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 13
	1974 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 12
	1973 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 11
	1973 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 10
	1972 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 9
	1972 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 8
	1971 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 8
	1971 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 7
	1971 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : Orbit 6
	1969 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Masks
	1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Masks

Damon Knight recommends

Meet Me in the Moon Room (2001)
Ray Vukcevich
"What other writer could make you start laughing halfway down the first page of a story about a man putting on a sweater? Thurber maybe, a long time ago. Buy this book."

Systemic Shock (1981)
(Quantrill, book 1)
Dean Ing
"Terrifyingly plausible."

Dreamsnake (1978)
Vonda N McIntyre
"One of the best and brightest of the new science fiction writers."