Alpha Centauri or Die!, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 8 relations: Ace Books, Fix-up, Jack Gaughan, Leigh Brackett, List of Ace double titles, Lord Dunsany, Planet Stories, Stars in fiction.

2. 1963 science fiction novels
3. Fiction about the Solar System
4. Fiction set around Alpha Centauri
5. Novels about telepathy
6. Novels by Leigh Brackett

Ace Books

Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. Alpha Centauri or Die! and Ace Books are Ace Books books.

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Fix-up

A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published.

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Jack Gaughan

John Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan, pronounced like 'gone' (September 24, 1930 – July 21, 1985), was an American science fiction artist and illustrator and multiple winner of the Hugo Award in the category of Best Professional Artist.

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Leigh Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).

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List of Ace double titles

American company Ace Books began publishing genre fiction starting in 1952.

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Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist.

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Planet Stories

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955.

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Stars in fiction

Stars outside of the Solar System have been featured as settings in works of fiction since at least the 1600s, though this did not become commonplace until the pulp era of science fiction.

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See also

1963 science fiction novels

• Alpha Centauri or Die!
• Als die Götter starben
• Badge of Infamy
• Captives of the Flame
• Cat's Cradle
• Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
• Destination Mars
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
• Dune (novel)
• Far Rainbow
• Fifth Planet (novel)
• Key Out of Time
• Lords of the Psychon
• Planet of the Apes (novel)
• Podkayne of Mars
• Razor's Edge (novel)
• Space Viking
• Star Surgeon
• The Colors of Space
• The Dragon Masters
• The Game-Players of Titan
• The Invincible
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (novel)
• The Stardroppers
• Way Station (novel)
• Witch World (novel)

Fiction about the Solar System

• Alpha Centauri or Die!
• Avenue 5
• Battle Angel Alita
• Battle Angel Alita: Last Order
• Battlezone (1998 video game)
• Bio of a Space Tyrant
• Buck Rogers XXVC
• Captain Future
• Cold as Ice (novel)
• Dan Dare
• Descent (video game)
• Destiny 2
• Destiny 2: Beyond Light
• Eclipse Phase
• Eight Worlds
• Fictional planets of the Solar System
• Implied Spaces
• Legacy Trilogy
• Lucky Starr series
• Mars Horizon
• Mundane science fiction
• Northwest Smith
• Nova (novel)
• Planetary series
• Rocketmen (card game)
• Sailor Moon
• Solarquest
• Space Patrol (1950 TV series)
• Space Patrol (1962 TV series)
• The Causal Angel
• The Fractal Prince
• The Ganymede Club
• The Magic School Bus (book series)
• The Space Trilogy
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
• Transhuman Space
• Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress
• Vampire Hunter D
• Xeelee Sequence

Fiction set around Alpha Centauri

• AE: Apocalypse Earth
• Address: Centauri
• Alpha Centauri or Die!
• Avatar (franchise)
• Children of God (novel)
• Civilization II
• Civilization II: Test of Time
• Civilization III
• Civilization IV
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
• Civilization Revolution
• Civilization Revolution 2
• Clans of the Alphane Moon
• Colony Wars
• Common Time
• Drakon (novel)
• Encounter with Tiber
• Federation (novel)
• Footfall
• GURPS Alpha Centauri
• Homo Sol
• Implied Spaces
• Impostor (2001 film)
• Killzone
• Killzone (video game)
• Lost in Space
• Only You Can Save Mankind
• Planet of the Apes (TV series)
• Procrustes (short story)
• Queen of Angels (novel)
• Quest for the Future
• Remembrance of Earth's Past
• Revolt on Alpha C
• Rocket to Limbo
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• StarForce: Alpha Centauri
• Starship Through Space
• Stellaris (video game)
• Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
• The Centauri Device
• The Day After Tomorrow (TV special)
• The Death of Sleep
• The Falling Torch
• The Magellanic Cloud
• The Shiva Option
• The Sparrow (novel)
• The Three-Body Problem (novel)
• Voyage from Yesteryear
• Voyage to the End of the Universe

Novels about telepathy

• A Nightmare on Elm Street: Suffer the Children
• A Stir of Echoes
• A Voyage to Arcturus
• Alien Minds
• Alpha Centauri or Die!
• Beyond This Horizon
• Childhood's End
• City of Illusions
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
• Dying Inside
• Fire (Cashore novel)
• Galactic Milieu Series
• Graceling
• Hideaway (novel)
• Highways in Hiding
• Last and First Men
• Man of Many Minds
• Patternmaster
• Slave Ship (Pohl novel)
• Star Maker
• Star Rangers (novel)
• Starborne
• The Chrysalids
• The City and the Stars
• The Ganymede Takeover
• The Humanoids
• The Institute (King novel)
• The Islands of Wisdom
• The Mind Parasites
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Nexus Trilogy
• The Robots of Dawn
• The Shibboleth
• The Silver Kiss
• The Space Vampires
• The Tower and the Hive
• The Twelve-Fingered Boy
• The Whole Man
• Time for the Stars
• Touch Not the Cat
• World of Ptavvs

Novels by Leigh Brackett

• Alpha Centauri or Die!
• People of the Talisman
• Shadow Over Mars
• The Big Jump
• The Long Tomorrow (novel)
• The Secret of Sinharat
• The Starmen
• The Sword of Rhiannon

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri_or_Die!