C. C. MacApp

C. C. MacApp, pseudonym of Carroll Mather Capps (27 November 1917 – 15 January 1971)[1] was an American science fiction author. He was also a long-time benefactor of San Francisco chess. MacApp was a former president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, and won the Northern California and San Francisco chess championship several times.[2] He also wrote as Carroll J. Clem.[3]

MacApp's novelette "A Guest of Ganymede" took the cover of the June 1963 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow

Bibliography

Novels

As listed in Fantastic Fiction [4]

  • Omha Abides (1968)
  • Prisoners of the Sky (1969)
  • Secret of the Sunless World (as Carroll M. Capps, 1969)
  • Worlds of the Wall (1969)
  • Recall Not Earth (1970)
  • SUBB (1971)
  • Bumsider (1972)

Short stories

Published in Galaxy Science Fiction:

Published in Worlds of If:

Gree series

This space opera series ran in Worlds of If alongside Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series and Keith Laumer's tales of Retief, the galactic diplomat.

Awards

His novella The Mercurymen was a finalist for the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

References
  1. "C. C. MacApp," Author Wars
  2. California Chess in the early 1970s
  3. "MacApp, C.C." in The Fiction Mags Index
  4. "C C MacApp", Fantastic Fiction
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