- 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), high gravity (2), exploration (2), alien perspective (2), neutron star (2), aliens (2), asteroids (1), Alpha Centauri (1), Proxima Centauri (1), Epsilon Eridani (1), longevity (1), obsessive-compulsive disorder (1), egotism (1), superrich (1), bullying (1), terrorism (1), physics of neutron stars (1), drugs (1) and 32 additional tags. View all tags for Robert L. Forward
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Novels
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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)
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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)
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Starquake (1985)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Sternbeben: Krieg auf dem Neutronenstern [German] (1987)
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Martian Rainbow (1991)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der Regenbogen des Mars [German] (1992)
- Timemaster (1992)
- Return to Rocheworld (1993) with Julie Forward Fuller
- Marooned on Eden (1993) with Martha Dodson Forward
- Camelot 30K (1993)
- Ocean Under the Ice (1994) with Martha Dodson Forward
- Rescued from Paradise (1995) with Julie Forward Fuller
- Saturn Rukh (1997)
- Indistinguishable from Magic (1995)
- Dragon's Egg / Starquake (1994) [O/1,2]
- 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:
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The Singing Diamond (1979)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der singende Diamant [German] (1983)
- 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)
- Acceleration Constant (1986)
- IIXXT- (1988)
- Fading Into Blackness (1988) [also as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- A Matter Most Strange (1989)
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New Colonists' Guide to Mars (1991)
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]
- Self-Limiting (1992)
- Race to the Pole (1995)
- Turn Left at the Moon (1995)
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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)
- Far Out Physics (1975) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Interstellar Probes and Starships (1977) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Exploring Infrastellar Space (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)
- A Taste of Dragon's Egg (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)
- Spin Drive to the Stars (1981)
- 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)
- Flattening Spacetime (1983)
- 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)
- A Very Heavy Touchstone (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]
- The Negative Matter Space Drive (1990)
- Polesitters (1990)
- 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)
- Faster Than Light Space Travel Will Someday Be More Than Just SF. (1994) with Gregory Benford and John G. Cramer and Geoffrey A. Landis
- Twenty-First-Century Spac Propulsion (1995)
- When Science Writes the Fiction (1995)
- Faster-Than-Light (1995)
- 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
- 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)