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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

Theodore Rose Cogswell, (1918–1987), was an American science fiction author. He wrote nearly 40 science fiction stories, many in a lighthearted vein, and was co-author of the Star Trek novel, Spock, Messiah! (with Charles A. Spano, Jr.)

Cogswell also edited the long-running “fanzine for pros,” Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies, a collection of which was published in 1993. In this, writers and editors discussed their and each other’s works.

During the Spanish Civil War, he serv 9781479408993 ed as an ambulance driver on the Republican side in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

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“The Spectre General”—Cogswell’s first published story—appeared in the June 1952 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

It was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest novellas prior to the introduction of the Nebula Awards in 1965 and included in their anthology, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.

Wildside Press will be reprinting all of Theodore Cogswell’s works in 2014-2015. The Spectre General is the first in the series.