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C. C. MacApp
1917–1971
Best known for lively, idea-driven science fiction, this American writer came to publishing relatively late and quickly built a reputation in magazine SF. Outside literature, he was also a prominent figure in San Francisco chess.
6 Audiobooks
Tulan
by C. C. MacApp
And All the Earth a Grave
by C. C. MacApp
A Pride of Islands
by C. C. MacApp
All That Earthly Remains
by C. C. MacApp
A Guest of Ganymede
by C. C. MacApp
The Drug
by C. C. MacApp
About the author
Writing as C. C. MacApp, Carroll Mather Capps was an American science fiction author whose work appeared mainly in the 1960s. Reliable reference sources describe him as a former color printer who turned seriously to fiction after illness forced his retirement, and note that his publishing career began with "A Pride of Islands" in If in 1960.
He became closely associated with If and related science-fiction magazines, publishing short fiction as well as novels including Omha Abides, Prisoners of the Sky, Worlds of the Wall, and Recall Not Earth. His stories are remembered for classic magazine-SF energy: big ideas, strange worlds, and adventurous plots.
Capps was also deeply involved in the chess community around San Francisco. Biographical sources credit him as a longtime benefactor of local chess, a former president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, and a multiple winner of Northern California and San Francisco chess championships.