The Swinging Light

Keep The Light On

Author

Michael Shaara

23 Jun 1928 – 5 May 1988

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 – May 5, 1988) was an American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to an Italian immigrant father (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced in a similar way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University, where he joined Theta Chi, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his cigarette smoking caused him, at the early age of 36, to have a heart attack, from which he recovered completely. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988 aged fifty-nine. Shaara's children, Jeffrey and Lila, are also novelists. In 1997, Jeffrey Shaara established the annual *Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction*, awarded at Gettysburg College. **Source**: [Michael Shaara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shaara) on Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Books

30 books

The Killer Angels

1974

Michael Shaara

Machines That Think

1984

Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg, Ambrose Bierce, John Wyndham, Harl Vincent, Harry Bates, Robert Moore Williams, Lester del Rey, A. E. van Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Walter M. Miller Jr., Jesse F. Bone, Harry Harrison, Michael Shaara, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner, Frederic Brown, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, George Zebrowski

Election day 2084

1984

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Hebert, John Jakes, Frederik Pohl, Michael Shaara, Barry N. Malzberg, Randall Garrett, Christopher Anvil, Robert A. Heinlein, Ward Moore, Sam Sackett, R. A. Lafferty, Stanley Schmidt, Wyman Guin, Larry Eisenberg, Elma Wentz

Monsters

1988

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Robert Silverberg, Lloyd Biggle Jr, J.-H. Rosny, aîné, Theodore L. Thomas, William Tenn, Roger Zelazny, F. L. Wallace, A. E. van Vogt, Philip José Farmer, Murray Leinster, Michael Shaara

For the Love of the Game

1991

Michael Shaara

Robots

1989

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Charles G. Waugh, Henry Slesar, Robert Sheckley, David Brin, Clifford D. Simak, George H. Smith, Thomas A. Easton, A. A. Jackson, IV , Howard Waldrop, Philip K. Dick, David R. Bunch, Algis Budrys, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Lester del Rey, Michael Shaara, Harry Bates

The broken place

1968

Michael Shaara

Wild Inventions

1981

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Stan Nodvik, Michael Shaara, Harry Harrison, Frederik Pohl

Herald

1981

Michael Shaara

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)

1988

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Alan Edward Nourse, Mark Clifton, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, Murray Leinster, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Poul Anderson, James Blish, Margaret St. Clair, Mack Reynolds, Reginald Bretnor, Michael Shaara, Theodore Sturgeon

Conquest Over Time

2011

Michael Shaara

Friends, robots, countrymen

1989

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Lester del Rey, Harry Bates, Eric Frank Russell, Michael Shaara, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg

Soldier boy

1982

Michael Shaara

Histórias de Robôs - Volume 3

2005

Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Walter M. Miller Jr., Jesse F. Bone, Harry Harrison, Michael Shaara, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner