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Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923–2002)

Author of All the Colors of Darkness

76+ Works 2,507 Members 42 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Works by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

All the Colors of Darkness (1963) 297 copies
Monument (1974) 285 copies
Nebula Award Stories Seven (1972) — Preface; Editor — 222 copies
The World Menders (1971) 181 copies
Watchers of the Dark (1966) 170 copies
The Fury Out of Time (1966) 153 copies
The Metallic Muse (1972) 145 copies
The Light That Never Was (1972) 140 copies
Eye For Eye/The Tunesmith (1990) — Contributor — 128 copies
Silence is Deadly (1605) 110 copies
The Silent Sky (1967) 92 copies
The Puzzle Planet / The Angry Espers (Ace Double D-485) (1961) — Contributor — 39 copies
This Darkening Universe (1975) 29 copies
The whirligig of time (1979) 29 copies
Alien Main (1985) 16 copies
The Chronocide Mission (2002) 14 copies
The Angry Espers (1961) 12 copies
A galaxy of strangers (1976) 12 copies
SF 130 GTX de Luxe (1978) — Contributor — 11 copies
Tunesmith 10 copies
The Light That Never Was / Monument (1980) — Author — 8 copies
Interface for Murder (1987) 4 copies
L'ouragan du temps (1965) 2 copies
Qui a éteint l'univers ? (1982) 2 copies
Ordeal by Terror (2013) 1 copy

Associated Works

Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) — Contributor — 450 copies
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1964) — Contributor — 160 copies
Analog 1 (1963) — Contributor — 155 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1 (1972) — Contributor — 145 copies
Crafty Cat Crimes: 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries (2000) — Contributor; Contributor — 142 copies
Analog: The Best of Science Fiction (1982) — Contributor — 127 copies
Catastrophes! (1981) — Contributor — 89 copies
Baseball's Best Short Stories (1995) — Contributor — 79 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 16th Series (1967) — Contributor — 69 copies
Young Extraterrestrials (1984) — Contributor — 64 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957) (1989) — Contributor — 64 copies
Omega (1973) — Contributor — 63 copies
Give Me Liberty (2002) — Contributor — 62 copies
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996) — Contributor — 59 copies
TV:2000 (1982) — Contributor — 50 copies
Strange Gods (1974) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 18th Series (1969) — Contributor — 40 copies
The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series (1956) — Contributor — 34 copies
Worst Contact (2015) — Contributor — 17 copies
To Be Read Before Midnight (1963) 14 copies
Galaxy Science Fiction 1957 June, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1957) — Contributor — 9 copies
Fantastic Universe May 1959 (1959) — Contributor — 6 copies
Das Beste aus OMNI 1 (1983) — Contributor, some editions — 4 copies
Die Königin der Dämonen (1979) — Contributor — 4 copies
Saturn, May 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No. 2) (1957) — Contributor — 2 copies
Great Science Fiction from Fantastic No. 4 (1966) — Contributor — 1 copy

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A fun light-hearted take on the natives vs. modern culture theme. The law as 'attorneys face off with URLs in front of a master computer' is typical of the often humourous sometimes thought-proking concepts thrown around.
 
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furicle | 4 other reviews | Aug 5, 2023 |
A weak sequel to All the Colors of Darkness. In the first novel, there was one set of aliens, and, for 60s SF, they were relatively alien. Here, there are half a dozen alien races and they all sound like humans, with cocktail parties and the rest. The setting of the first novel was the Moon. The setting of this novel is galactic. But our hero -- and his senior citizen tough as nails companion -- have no trouble acclimating. It's that annoying lack of concept of scale, where one galaxy invading another is like two countries at war,, and one human can deal with this, as if such a thing for a country would not be overwhelming, much less a world, or a planetary system. And worst of all, the resolution of the core mystery of how the invasion is happening is both hard to credit and has been in-your-face for at least half the book.

Not objectionable but nothing to recommend.
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½
 
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ChrisRiesbeck | 3 other reviews | Aug 16, 2022 |
A slightly dated but enjoyable lightweight SF novel, the first in the Jan Darzek series. Interestingly, Jan is introduced in the second chapter. The first chapter and nearly half of this short novel features an engineer named Ted Arnold. Ted is fairly colorless, so it's not surprising that Darzek returned for future stories, despite knowing no science. Instead, he is a classic detective -- observant, unflappable, and occasionally slightly annoying. The initial setup is more like a locked room mystery -- how are people disappearing in transit in a new teleportation system when there's only here and there? The book has dated when it comes to portraying women, business, and aliens. The feeling is more 1940s than the book's 1963 publication date, with a whiff of Heinlein.

Recommended for lovers of classic SF.
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ChrisRiesbeck | 9 other reviews | Aug 9, 2022 |
Lloyd Biggle Jr. tackles the thorny issue of apartheid and the marginalisation and harassment of ethnic minorities in the format of a breezy mystery set in the art world. Unfortunately the text is overlong and dull characters fail to draw the reader into the story.
 
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SFF1928-1973 | May 18, 2021 |

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