Tom Godwin

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Tom Godwin


Born
in Arizona (?), The United States
June 06, 1915

Died
August 31, 1980

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Tom Godwin (1915 - 1980) was a science fiction author. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable in the mid-1950s science fiction genre. He also had three novels published, but these stayed more firmly in John W. Campbell's preferred styles and are less notable. Graduated from Bay Village High School in Bay Village, Ohio.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 10,029 ratings · 988 reviews · 93 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Survivors (Ragnarok, #2)

3.92 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 1958 — 109 editions
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The Cold Equations and Othe...

3.85 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 1954 — 8 editions
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For the Cold Equations

4.20 avg rating — 123 ratings4 editions
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The Nothing Equation

3.50 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1957 — 13 editions
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Space Prison and Other Works

3.79 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Cry from a Far Planet

3.61 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1951 — 26 editions
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The Space Barbarians

3.30 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1964 — 9 editions
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And Devious the Line of Duty

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3.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1962
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Le fredde equazioni

4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings2 editions
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Ragnarok

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“It’s always the little things you remember people by, all the little things they did because they wanted to do them for you.”
Tom Godwin, The Cold Equations and Other Stories

“Existence required order, and there was order; the laws of nature, irrevocable and immutable.”
Tom Godwin
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“The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked "No Admittance"—but it is always deadly dangerous.”
Tom Godwin, The Best Sci-Fi Books of Tom Godwin: For The Cold Equations, Space Prison, The Nothing Equation, The Barbarians, Cry from a Far Planet

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