"Shipwright"

Title"Shipwright"
Year for Search1978
AuthorsKingsbury, Donald [MacDonald](b. 1929)
Secondary TitleAnalog Science Fiction--Science Fact
Volume / Edition98.4
Pagination10-14, 16-20, 21-42
Date PublishedApril 1978
ISSN Number1059-2113
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Gender-role reversal but more complex than the usual in that it involves two planets with different customs and different gender relations.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 110-152; and in Imperial Stars. Volume 2. Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 347-387, with a politically oriented Editor’s Introduction on 346-347.

Holding Institutions

Merril, MoU-St, PSt

Author Note

The author (b. 1929) was born in the United States and moved to Canada in 1948 where he was a professor of Mathematics and McGill University from 1956 to his retirement in 1986.

Full Text

1978 Kingsbury, Donald [MacDonald] (b. 1929). “Shipwright.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 98.4 (April 1978): 10-14, 16-20, 21-42. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 110-152; and in Imperial Stars. Volume 2. Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 347-387, with a politically oriented Editor’s Introduction on 346-347. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

Gender-role reversal but more complex than the usual in that it involves two planets with different customs and different gender relations. The author was born in the United States and moved to Canada in 1948 where he was a professor of Mathematics and McGill University from 1956 to his retirement in 1986.