- Author: Robert L. Forward Author Record # 815
- Legal Name: Forward, Robert Lull
- Birthplace: Geneva, New York, USA
- Birthdate: 15 August 1932
- Deathdate: 21 September 2002
- Language: English
- Webpages: britannica.com, IMDB, robertforward.com, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names:
George Peterson Field, Dr. Robert L. Forward, Robert Forward (I), Bob Forward, Dr. Robert L. Forward, Ph.D., ロバート L. フォワード?Robāto L. Fowādo,ロバート・L・フォワード?Robāto L. Fowādo, Susan Lull, Maury Pickford
- Note: Physicist who earned his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Maryland, USA. Three of his children - Eve Forward, Julie Forward Fuller and Robert Forward - also wrote titles of speculative fiction.
- Author Tags: science fiction (5), first contact (4), hard sf (3), aliens (2), exploration (2), alien perspective (2), high gravity (2), neutron star (2), drugs (1), interstellar travel (1), interplanetary travel (1), New Jersey (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2050s (1), set in 2060s (1), set in 2070s (1), wormholes (1), negative matter (1), negative energy (1) and 32 additional tags. View all tags for Robert L. Forward
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Fiction Series
- Dragon's Egg
- 1
Dragon's Egg (1980)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Das Drachenei [German] (1981)
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Translation: 竜の卵?Ryū no Tamago[Japanese] (1982) [as byロバート・L・フォワード?Robāto L. Fowādo]
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Translation: L'œuf du dragon?L'oeuf du dragon[French] (1984)
- 2
Starquake (1985)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Sternbeben: Krieg auf dem Neutronenstern [German] (1987)
- Dragon's Egg / Starquake (1994) [O/1,2]
- 1
Dragon's Egg (1980)
also appeared as:
- Martian Rainbow
-
Martian Rainbow (1991)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der Regenbogen des Mars [German] (1992)
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New Colonists' Guide to Mars (1991) [SF]
only appeared as:
- Variant: New Colonists' Guide to Mars (1991) [as by Maury Pickford]
- Translation: Der Mars — ein Leitfaden für neue Siedler [German] (1992) [as by Maury Pickford]
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Martian Rainbow (1991)
also appeared as:
- Rocheworld
- 1
The Flight of the Dragonfly (1984)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der Flug der Libelle [German] (1986)
- Translation: Le vol de la libellule [French] (1986) [as by Robert Forward (I)]
- Variant: Rocheworld (1990)
- Serializations:
- Rocheworld (Part 1 of 3) (1982)
- Rocheworld (Part 2 of 3) (1983)
- Rocheworld (Part 3 of 3) (1983)
- 2 Return to Rocheworld (1993) with Julie Forward Fuller
- 3 Marooned on Eden (1993) with Martha Dodson Forward
- 4 Ocean Under the Ice (1994) with Martha Dodson Forward
- 5 Rescued from Paradise (1995) with Julie Forward Fuller
- 1
The Flight of the Dragonfly (1984)
also appeared as:
- Timemaster (1992)
- Camelot 30K (1993)
- Saturn Rukh (1997)
- Indistinguishable from Magic (1995)
- Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics (1988) with Joel Davis
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Future Magic (1988)
also appeared as:
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Translation: SFはどこまで実現するか―重力波通信からブラック・ホール工学まで?SF ha Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Jūryokuha Tsūshin kara Burakku Hōru Kōgaku Made[Japanese] (1989) [as by
SF ha Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Juuryokuha Tsuushin kara Burakku Hooru Kougaku Made
SF wa Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Jūryokuha Tsūshin kara Burakku Hōru Kōgaku Made
SF wa Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Juuryokuha Tsuushin kara Burakku Hooru Kougaku Made
Esu Efu ha Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Jūryokuha Tsūshin kara Burakku Hōru Kōgaku Made
Esu Efu ha Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Juuryokuha Tsuushin kara Burakku Hooru Kougaku Made
Esu Efu wa Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Jūryokuha Tsūshin kara Burakku Hōru Kōgaku Made
Esu Efu wa Doko Made Jitsugen Suru ka: Juuryokuha Tsuushin kara Burakku Hooru Kougaku Made
SFはどこまでじつげんするか―じゅうりょくはつうしんからブラック・ホールこうがくまでロバート L. フォワード?Robāto L. Fowādo]
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Translation:
- 'Red' Vengeance
- 1
The Singing Diamond (1979)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der singende Diamant [German] (1983)
- 2 Acceleration Constant (1986)
- 1
The Singing Diamond (1979)
also appeared as:
- Probability Zero
- Self-Limiting (1992)
- I Demand the Stars for My Children! (1979) [only as by Susan Lull]
- The Cerebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras III (1981) with Martha Dodson Forward [only as by Martha Dodson and Robert L. Forward]
- Twin Paradox (1983)
- IIXXT- (1988)
- Fading Into Blackness (1988) [also as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- A Matter Most Strange (1989)
- Race to the Pole (1995)
- Turn Left at the Moon (1995)
- Science (Science Fiction Age)
- Faster Than Light Space Travel Will Someday Be More Than Just SF. (1994) with Gregory Benford and John G. Cramer and Geoffrey A. Landis
- Forget SF's magical warp drives. Can today's science give us the stars for real? (1995) with David Brin and Geoffrey A. Landis and Jonathan V. Post
- Science Fact (Analog)
- Far Out Physics (1975) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Exploring Infrastellar Space (1977) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- A Taste of Dragon's Egg (1980)
- Spin Drive to the Stars (1981)
- Flattening Spacetime (1983)
- The Negative Matter Space Drive (1990)
- Polesitters (1990)
- Faster-Than-Light (1995)
- Touchstones
- A Very Heavy Touchstone (1986)
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Pluto Is Black! (1962)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Pluto, Doorway to the Stars (1962) [as by George Peterson Field]
- Translation: Pluto ist schwarz! [German] (1980)
- Letter (Analog, August 1973) (1973)
- Interstellar Probes and Starships (1977) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Goodbye Gravity (1979)
- Einstein's Legacy (1979)
- Letter (Locus #222) (1979)
- On the Tenth of Apollo 11 (1979)
- Antimatter Revealed (1979)
- Speculations on the Spirit (1979)
- Comet Catcher (1980)
- How to Build a Time Machine (1980)
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Technical Appendix (Dragon's Egg) (1980)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Technischer Anhang (Das Drachenei) [German] (1981)
- Life on a Neutron Star (1980)
- Alien in Our Seas (1981)
- High Wire Act (1981) with Hans Moravec [only as by Robert L. Forward and Hans P. Moravec]
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Breakthroughs: Antimatter Rockets (1982)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Antimatter Rockets (1986)
- Letter (Analog, October 1983) (1983) [only as by Bob Forward]
- The Paradox of the Torch Ship (1984)
- The Paradox of Interstellar Transport (1985)
- Technical Appendix (Starquake) (1985)
- When Science Writes the Fiction (1986)
- Magic Matter (1987)
- Introduction (Future Magic) (1988)
- Letter (Analog, May 1989) (1989) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Lightsails to the Stars (1990) with Joel Davis
- Letter (Locus #352) (1990) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Letter (Analog, April 1991) (1991) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Letter (Analog, September 1991) (1991)
- Letter (Analog, September 1991) [2] (1991)
- Letter (Locus #377) (1992)
- Twenty-First-Century Spac Propulsion (1995)
- When Science Writes the Fiction (1995)
- Antigravity (1995)
- Antimatter (1995)
- Beanstalks (1995)
- Black Holes (1995)
- Future Speculations (1995)
- Introduction (Indistinguishable from Magic) (1995)
- Space Warps and Time Machines (1995)
- Starships (1995)
- Letter (Analog, December 1995) (1995) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward, Ph.D.]
- Letter (Ansible 112) (1996)
- Ad Astra! (2003)