- 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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Fiction Series
- Dragon's Egg
- 1 Dragon's Egg (1980)
- 2 Starquake (1985)
- Dragon's Egg / Starquake (1994) [O/1,2]
- Martian Rainbow
- Martian Rainbow (1991)
- New Colonists' Guide to Mars (1991) [SF] [only as by Maury Pickford]
- Rocheworld
- 1
The Flight of the Dragonfly (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Rocheworld (1990)
- Serializations:
- Rocheworld (Part 1 of 3) (1982)
- Rocheworld (Part 2 of 3) (1983)
- Rocheworld (Part 3 of 3) (1983)
- 2 Return to Rocheworld (1993) with Julie Forward Fuller
- 3 Marooned on Eden (1993) with Martha Dodson Forward
- 4 Ocean Under the Ice (1994) with Martha Dodson Forward
- 5 Rescued from Paradise (1995) with Julie Forward Fuller
- 1
The Flight of the Dragonfly (1984)
also appeared as:
- Timemaster (1992)
- Camelot 30K (1993)
- Saturn Rukh (1997)
- Indistinguishable from Magic (1995)
- Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics (1988) with Joel Davis
- Future Magic (1988)
- 'Red' Vengeance
- 1 The Singing Diamond (1979)
- 2 Acceleration Constant (1986)
- Probability Zero
- Self-Limiting (1992)
- 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)
- IIXXT- (1988)
- Fading Into Blackness (1988) [also as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- A Matter Most Strange (1989)
- Race to the Pole (1995)
- Turn Left at the Moon (1995)
- Science (Science Fiction Age)
- Faster Than Light Space Travel Will Someday Be More Than Just SF. (1994) with Gregory Benford and John G. Cramer and Geoffrey A. Landis
- 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
- Science Fact (Analog)
- Far Out Physics (1975) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- Exploring Infrastellar Space (1977) [only as by Dr. Robert L. Forward]
- A Taste of Dragon's Egg (1980)
- Spin Drive to the Stars (1981)
- Flattening Spacetime (1983)
- The Negative Matter Space Drive (1990)
- Polesitters (1990)
- Faster-Than-Light (1995)
- Touchstones
- A Very Heavy Touchstone (1986)
-
Pluto Is Black! (1962)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Pluto, Doorway to the Stars (1962) [as by George Peterson Field]
- Letter (Analog, August 1973) (1973)
- Interstellar Probes and Starships (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)
- How to Build a Time Machine (1980)
- Technical Appendix (Dragon's Egg) (1980)
- Life on a Neutron Star (1980)
- Alien in Our Seas (1981)
- High Wire Act (1981) with Hans Moravec [only as by Robert L. Forward and Hans P. Moravec]
-
Breakthroughs: Antimatter Rockets (1982)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Antimatter Rockets (1986)
- 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)
- 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]
- 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)
- Twenty-First-Century Spac Propulsion (1995)
- When Science Writes the Fiction (1995)
- 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)