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J. T. McIntosh (1925–2008)

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J.T. McIntosh is the pen name for the Scottish author James Murdoch MacGregor (b. 1925); pen name frequently appeared as J.T. M'Intosh

Werken van J. T. McIntosh

Ruler of the World (1977) 92 exemplaren
Worlds Apart (1954) — Auteur — 71 exemplaren
Six Gates from Limbo (1968) 66 exemplaren
World Out of Mind (1953) 65 exemplaren
Transmigration (1970) 55 exemplaren
Time For A Change (1967) 53 exemplaren
The Suiciders (1972) — Auteur — 52 exemplaren
Flight from Rebirth (1971) 51 exemplaren
The Million Cities (1963) 43 exemplaren
One in Three Hundred (1954) 41 exemplaren
Norman Conquest 2066 (1977) 37 exemplaren
200 Years to Christmas / Rebels of the Red Planet (1961) — Auteur — 34 exemplaren
The fittest (1955) 30 exemplaren
Planet Called Utopia (1979) 15 exemplaren
Die Crock- Expedition (1973) 7 exemplaren
Out of Chaos 6 exemplaren
The Noman Way (1964) 6 exemplaren
200 Years to Christmas (2007) 4 exemplaren
Cosmic Spies (1972) 3 exemplaren
Venus Mission 2 exemplaren
First Lady 2 exemplaren
The Stupid General 2 exemplaren
Memoir & Bibliography 2 exemplaren
Take a Pair of Private Eyes (1968) 2 exemplaren
Die Überlebenden (1955) 2 exemplaren
The Man Who Cried "Sheep!" (1955) 2 exemplaren
Hallucination Orbit 2 exemplaren
Made In U.S.A. 2 exemplaren
Mind Alone 2 exemplaren
Tenth Time Around 2 exemplaren
Humanoid Sacrifice 1 exemplaar
Suiciders 1 exemplaar
Monde en oubli 1 exemplaar
Hermit [novelette] 1 exemplaar
One Into Two 1 exemplaar
A Coat of Blackmail (1970) 1 exemplaar
Sanctuary Oh Ulla! 1 exemplaar
Safety Margin 1 exemplaar
Suicders #17889 (1973) 1 exemplaar

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Planet Stories 46, January 1951 (1951) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
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Officiële naam
MacGregor, James Murdoch
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
M'Intosh, J. T.
Murdoch, H. J.
Geboortedatum
1925-02-14
Overlijdensdatum
2008-12-31
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Scotland
Geboorteplaats
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Ontwarringsbericht
J.T. McIntosh is the pen name for the Scottish author James Murdoch MacGregor (b. 1925); pen name frequently appeared as J.T. M'Intosh

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A silly title though I can see why there was a desire to replace the forgettable original title "The Fittest". This reminded me a bit of Tucker's far better The Long Loud Silence as a not very sympathetic main character makes his way through a devolving civilization. The cause initially seems kind of silly: lab-created intelligent dogs, cats, rats, and mice have escaped, reproduced rapidly, and are now relentlessly killing people and destroying our infrastructure. Eventually this is made a bit more reasonable and the nature of the change a bit more nuanced. Like Kress' Beggars in Spain, the change is small. Like humans, the animals can do one-shot learning. They see something work or fail, and they remember it immediately. Otherwise they're still animals that can't communicate or do higher order cognition. The book also manages to maintain a steady growing sense of tension and despair for much of its short length, though it eventually becomes mostly about humans vs humans, as most apocalyptic stories do.

What makes this hard to recommend is the racism and sexism that appears on virtually every page. If it were just a passage or chapter, it could be noted and passed over , but it's deep in the fabric of the story.

Only for historians of British SF.
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ChrisRiesbeck | Mar 20, 2022 |
L'autore immagina che, negli ultimi giorni di agonia della Terra distrutta dalle radiazioni, un'astronave parta per il primo viaggio interplanetario con un carico di ragazzi sui sedici anni che saranno, su un nuovo pianeta, il Mundis, il ceppo della nuova Umanità. Durante il viaggio, che dura quattordici anni, le coppie che si sono formate decidono di non avere figli se non quando saranno arrivati al termine del viaggio. Per conseguenza, la nuova generazione è divisa dalla vecchia da un periodo di tempo che costituisce un abisso tra il mondo degli anziani e quello dei giovani, abisso reso più profondo dall'ignoranza completa dei giovani su tutto ciò che, sulla Terra, aveva costituito una base di vita per i loro padri, compresa la forza nucleare, considerata tabù. Mundis è un mondo felice, ma fermo. E i giovani che dai microfilm trasportati sull'astronave e gelosamente conservati, capiscono che la Terra era molto più progredita nella scienza, si ribellano alla congiura del silenzio dei vecchi, vogliono che il mondo sul quale sono nati fruisca anch'esso del progresso. La lotta fra loro e i vecchi si risolve attraverso un pericoloso avvenimento: l'arrivo su Mundis di un'altra astronave, la Clades, che trasporta gli ultimi - questa volta veramente tali - superstiti della Terra. Gli scampati hanno un altro sistema di vita, militaresco e dittatoriale, e sono animati da spirito di conquista. Chi prevarrà nella lotta fra questi due mondi, fra questi ultimi campioni dell'umanità divisi da diverse ideologie? Il romanzo ha un alto contenuto umano e sociale e piacerà a tutti, perchè rispecchia noi tutti, esseri umani, con le nostre debolezze, le nostre qualità, i nostri desideri, i nostri errori e le nostre aspirazioni.… (meer)
 
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M.Antonia | Mar 10, 2021 |
I got onto JT McIntosh from reading the anthologies compiled by John Carnell (
No place like earth, 1952 & Gateway to tomorrow, 1954) so when I saw this book I leapt at the chance to read a full length novel by one of the better contributors to the aforementioned anthologies.

Surprisingly, even though it was written in 1954, Born Leader (later published as Worlds Apart in 1958) doesn't feel dated like some 1950s/60s scifi novels do.

It's the story of a civilisation on the planet Mundis that was settled by people who thought they were the last space flight from a collapsing civilisation on earth. Little do they know a nearby planet Secundis also has been settled by a later flight which was put together after civilisation had collapsed and are looking to 'reunify' aka conquer other human settlements.

Emerging from this and conflict between the age groups on Mundis comes Rog Foley who has plans about what to do and how things should be handled.

Overall it's a great story from a largely forgotten author.
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HenriMoreaux | 2 andere besprekingen | Aug 12, 2020 |
I rarely give a one-star rating. This one earned it for its constant leering tone and eventually an out and out misogynistic torture scene with whips and slips, no less. This takes place far enough in the future that the Earth is pretty much all housing, going miles underground. So much for scientific plausibility. The people though are straight from the 1950s, with a casual attitude towards clothing. I suspect the author may have done this to justify more lurid covers. There's no sex per se in the book. There's not even any descriptions of human bodies, just of the clothing that is or is not there. The reveal at the end ("the literally shattering climax" according to the blurb) is OK for pulp SF, but there's nothing here to redeem the more reprehensible parts.

Not recommended.
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ChrisRiesbeck | Jun 1, 2019 |

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831
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