Summary Bibliography: Martin Gardner

Author: Martin Gardner Author Record # 830
Legal Name: Gardner, Martin
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Birthdate: 21 October 1914
Deathdate: 22 May 2010
Language: English
Webpages: gamepuzzles.com, Library of Congress, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
Used These Alternate Names:
マーチン・ガードナー^?Māchin Gādonā
Machin Gadona
Author Tags: science fiction (2), mathematics (2), fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), topology (1), Moebius strip (1), maps (1), fourth dimension (1), anthropology (1), Klein bottle (1), Pluto (1), Interplanetary commerce (1), logic (1), puzzle (1), quality control (1)

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Fiction Series

Oz Universe
- Oz
  - Visitors from Oz (1998)
SF Puzzles
- The Doctors' Dilemma (1977) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Das Dilemma der Ärzte [German] (1982)
- Lost on Capra (1977) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Verirrt auf Capra [German] (1982)
- Space Pool (1977) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Weltraum-Billard [German] (1982)
- Machismo on Byronia (1977) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Machismo von Byronia [German] (1982)
- The Case of the Defective Doyles (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Defective Doyles (1978)
  - Translation:
    欠陥ドイル事件^?Kekkan Doiru jiken
    [Japanese] (1981) [as by
    マーチン・ガードナー^?Māchin Gādonā
    Machin Gadona
    ]
  - Translation: Die kaputten Holme [German] (1982)
- The Third Dr. Moreau (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Dr. Moreau III. [German] (1982)
- The Voyage of the Bagel (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Reise der Brezel [German] (1982)
- The Great Ring of Neptune (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation:
    海王星の巨大な輪^?かいおうせいのきょだいなわ
    Kaiōsei no Kyodai na Wa
    Kaiousei no Kyodai na Wa
    [Japanese] (1980) [as by
    マーチン・ガードナー^?Māchin Gādonā
    Machin Gadona
    ]
  - Translation: Der Große Ring Neptuns [German] (1982)
- The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Toroide des Dr. Schwindelklon [German] (1982)
- The Postage Stamps of Philo Tate (1978) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Briefmarken des Philo Stempel [German] (1982)
- Exploring Carter's Crater (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Erforschung von Carters Krater [German] (1982)
- Captain Tittlebaum's Test (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Käpt'n Tittelbaums Test [German] (1982)
- Pink, Blue, and Green (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Rosa, Blau und Grün [German] (1982)
- The Three Robots of Professor Tinker (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die drei Roboter des Professor Tinker [German] (1982)
- How Bagson Bagged a Board Game (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Wie Bagson ein antikes Brettspiel knackte [German] (1982)
- The Shop on Bedford Street (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Das Geschäft an der Bedford Street [German] (1982)
- Tanya Tackles Topology (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Tanja traut sich an Topologie [German] (1982)
- The Explosion of Blabbage's Oracle (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Explosion des Blabbageschen Orakels [German] (1982)
- Dracula Makes a Martini (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Dracula mixt sich einen Martini [German] (1982)
- On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Oulipo Wordplay (1979)
  - Translation: Oulipo Wortspiele [German] (1982)
- The Erasing of Philbert the Fudger (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Auslöschung des Pfuschers Philbert [German] (1982)
- How Crock and Watkins Cracked a Code (1979) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: How Crock and Witson Cracked a Code (1979)
  - Translation: Wie Crock und Witson einen Code knackten [German] (1982)
- Titan's Titanic Symbol (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Titans titanisches Symbol [German] (1982)
- Professor Cracker's Antitelephone (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Professor Crackers Antitelefon [German] (1982)
- Vacation on the Moon (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Urlaub auf dem Mond [German] (1982)
- Lucifer at Las Vegas (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Luzifer in Las Vegas [German] (1982)
- Weird Numbers from Titan (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Unheimliche Zahlen von Titan [German] (1982)
- Off We're Going to Shuttle (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Weltraum-Pendler [German] (1982)
- The Backward Banana (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die rückläufige Banane [German] (1982)
- The Queer Story of Gardner's Magazine (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die seltsame Geschichte von Gardners Magazin [German] (1982)
- No Vacancy at Aleph-Null Inn (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Kein Platz im Aleph-Null-Hotel [German] (1982)
- Robots of Oz (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Roboter von Oz [German] (1982)
- G. Hovah's Decision Paradox (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Blabbage's Decision Paradox (1980)
  - Translation: Blabbagesches Entscheidungs-Paradoxon [German] (1982)
- Tube Through the Earth (1980) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Der Tunnel durch die Erde [German] (1982)
- The Bagel Heads Home (1981) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Die Brezel kehrt heim [German] (1982)
- The Dance of the Jolly Green Digits (1981) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Der Tanz der grünen Riesen [German] (1982)
- Chess by Ray & Smull (1981) [SF]
- The Polybugs of Titan (1981) [SF]
- Cracker's Parallel World (1981) [SF]
- Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) [C] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Denkspiele aus der Zukunft [German] (1984)
- Titan's Loch Meth Monster (1981) [SF]
- The Jinn from Hyperspace (1981) [SF]
- The Balls of Aleph-Null Inn (1981) [SF]
- Scrambled Heads on Langwidere (1981) [SF]
- Antimagic at the Number Wall (1981) [SF]
- Parallel Pasts (1981) [SF]
- Luke Warm at Forty Below (1981) [SF]
- The Gongs of Ganymede (1981) [SF]
- Tanya Hits and Misses (1982) [SF]
- Mystery Tiles at Murray Hill (1982) [SF]
- Crossing Numbers on Phoebe (1982) [SF]
- SFs and Fs on Fifty-Fifth Street (1982) [SF]
- Humpty Falls Again (1982) [SF]
- Palindromes and Primes (1982) [SF]
- Home Sweet Home (1982) [SF]
- Fingers and Colors on Chromo (1982) [SF]
- Valley of the Apes (1982) [SF]
- Dr. Moreau's Momeaters (1982) [SF]
- And He Built Another Crooked House (1982) [SF]
- Thirty Days Hath September (1982) [SF]
- Piggy's Glasses and the Moon (1982) [SF]
- Monorails on Mars (1983) [SF]
- The Demon and the Pentagram (1983) [SF]
- Flarp Flips a Fiver (1983) [SF]
- Bouncing Superballs (1983) [SF]
- Run, Robot, Run! (1983) [SF]
- Thang, Thung, and Metagame (1983) [SF]
- The Number of the Beast (1983) [SF]
- The Jock Who Wanted to Be Fifty (1983) [SF]
- Fibonacci Bamboo (1983) [SF]
- Tethered Purple-Pebble Eaters (1983) [SF]
- The Dybbuk and the Hexagram (1983) [SF]
- 1984 (1983) [SF]
- The Castrati of Womensa (1983) [SF]
- Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984) [C]
- Riddles of the Sphinxes (1984) [SF]
- Precognition and the Mystic 7 (1984) [SF]
- On to Charmian (1984) [SF]
- Two Odd Couples (1984) [SF]
- Technology on Vzigs (1984) [SF]
- The Valley of Lost Things (1984) [SF]
- The Road to Mandalay (1984) [SF]
- Around the Solar System (1984) [SF]
- The Stripe on Barberpolia (1984) [SF]
- The Black Hole of Cal Cutter (1984) [SF]
- Science Fantasy Puzzle Quiz (1984) [SF]
- The Barbers of Barberpolia (1984) [SF]
- It's All Done with Mirrors (1984) [SF]
- Satan and the Apple (1985) [SF]
- How's-That-Again Flanagan (1985) [SF]
- Relativistically Speaking (1985) [SF]
- Bar Bets on the Bagel (1985) [SF]
- Catch the BEM (1985) [SF]
- Animal TTT (1985) [SF]
- Playing Safe on the Bagel (1985) [SF]
- Inner Planets Quiz (1985) [SF]
- Sex Among the Polyomans (1985) [SF]
- Puzzles in Flatland (1985) [SF]
- Dirac's Scissors (1985) [SF]
- Bull's-Eyes and Pratfalls (1985) [SF]
- Flarp Flips Another Fiver (1985) [ES]
- Blues in the Night (1986) [SF]
- Again, How's That Again? (1986) [SF]
- Alice in Beeland (1986) [SF]
- Hustle Off to Buffalo (1986) [SF]
- Ray Palmer's Arcade (1986) [SF]
- Puzzle Flags on Mars (1986) [SF]
- The Vanishing Plank (1986) [SF]
- 987654321 (1986) [SF]
- Time Reversed Worlds (1986) [SF]
- The Wisdom of Solomon (1986) [SF]
- Thang, the Planet Eater (1986) [SF]

Collections

The No-Sided Professor, and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987)

Omnibus

The Wizard of Oz & Who He Was (1957) [O] with Russel B. Nye also appeared as:
- Variant: The Wizard Of Oz and Who He Was (2011) [O]

Nonfiction Series

Mathematical Games Columns from Scientific American
- 1 Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1982)
- 1 Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi (2013)
- 2 More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1990)
- 2 Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube (2008)
- 3 Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll. and Reversi (2009)
- 4 The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1990)
- 5 Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging (2014)
- 6 Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American (1971)
- 7 Mathematical Carnival (1978)
- 8 Mathematical Magic Show (unknown)
- 9 Mathematical Circus (1987)
- 10 Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983)
- 11 Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments (1986)
- 12 Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments (1988)

Nonfiction

Mathematics Magic and Mystery (1956)
Logic Machines and Diagrams (1958)
Science Puzzlers (1960)
The Ambidextrous Universe (1964) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (1982)
Order and Surprise (1983)
The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 (1996)
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000)

Short Fiction Series

Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski
- 1 No-Sided Professor (1947) also appeared as:
  - Translation:
    L'homme non latéral^?L'homme non lateral
    [French] (1957)
  - Translation: La terrible histoire de l'homme non latéral [French] (1963)
  - Translation:
    Profesorul fără nici o parte^?Profesorul fara nici o parte
    [Romanian] (1981)
- 2 The Island of the Five Colors (1952)
Monte Featherstone
- The Conspicuous Turtle (1947)
- The Horrible Horns (1950)

Short Fiction

The Dome of Many Colors (1944)
Good Dancing, Sailor! (1946)
The Horse on the Escalator (1946)
The Fall of Flatbush Smith (1947)
Nora Says "Check." (1948)
The Loves of Lady Coldpence (1948)
At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper (1948)
The Devil and the Trombone (1948) also appeared as:
- Translation: Il Diavolo E Il Trombone [Italian] (1979)
The Blue Birthmark (1948)
Thang (1948) also appeared as:
- Translation: Thang [Italian] (1980)
Sibyl Sits In (1948)
Love and the Tiddlywinks (1949)
One More Martini (1950)
Old Man Gloom (1950)
Merlina and the Colored Ice (1951)
Private Eye Oglesby (1951)
Left or Right? (1951)
The Virgin from Kalamazoo (1951)
Oom (1951)
The Sixth Ship (1951)
Miss Medford's Moon (1952)
The Three Cowboys (1959)
Mysterious Smith (1987)
Ranklin Felano Doosevelt (1987)
The Stranger (1987)

Poems

Essay Series

On Books
- On Another Book (1982)
Viewpoint
- Great Moments in Pseudoscience (1983)

Essays

Sidney Sime of Worplesdon (1949)
The Golden Galaxy (1951)
The Royal Historian of Oz (1955)
The Royal Historian of Oz (Part 1 of 2) (1955)
The Royal Historian of Oz (Part 2 of 2) (1955)
A Few Words from Our Chairman (The Baum Bugle, June 1957) (1957)
The Librarians in Oz (1959)
Chronological Checklist of Books of Fantasy by L. Frank Baum (1960)
Introduction (The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) (1960) also appeared as:
- Variant: Introduction to The Annotated Alice (2000)
Introduction to Dover Edition (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) (1960)
Annotations (The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits) (1962)
Appendix (The Annotated Snark) (1962)
Bibliography (The Annotated Snark) (1962)
Introduction (The Annotated Snark) (1962)
Why Librarians Dislike Oz (1962)
Oz and Ends (The Baum Bugle, Christmas 1964) (1964) with James E. Haff and Dr. George H. Jones and Lee Speth [only as by Martin Gardner and James E. Haff and Dr. George H. Jones and Lee Allan Speth]
Oz Revisited (1964)
The Land of Oz, U.S.A. (1965)
A Child's Garden of Bewilderment (1965)
Carroll Versus Baum (1965)
Oz & Ends (The Baum Bugle, Christmas 1967) (1967) with George L. Elmergreen and William G. Lee and S. C. Wyllie, Jr.
Introduction to the Dover Edition (The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People) (1968)
Introduction to the Dover Edition (The Marvelous Land of Oz) (1969)
Introduction (Queen Xixi of Ix, excerpt) (1971)
Introduction to the Dover Edition (Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak) (1971)
We're Off to See the Wizard (1971)
Introduction (The Martian Chronicles) (1974)
Introduction to the Dover Edition (John Dough and the Cherub) (1974)
The Oz Bookshelf (The Baum Bugle, Autumn 1974) (1974) with John T. Dizer, Jr. and Walt McDougall and Stephen J. Teller
Introduction to the Dover Edition (The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus) (1976)
Annotations (The Wasp in a Wig) (1977)
Introduction (The Wasp in a Wig) (1977)
Preface (The Wasp in a Wig) (1977)
American Fairy Tales (American Fairy Tales) (1978)
Preface (The Distinguished Collection of L. Frank Baum and Related Oziana, Including W.W. Denslow) (1978)
Answer to Pink, Blue, and Green (1979)
Second Solution to Pink, Blue, and Green (1979)
Third Solution to Pink, Blue, and Green (1979)
A Second Solution to The Three Robots of Professor Tinker (1979)
A Third Solution to The Three Robots of Professor Tinker (1979)
First Solution to The Three Robots of Professor Tinker (1979)
Foreword (A Dreamer's Tales) (1979)
How to Use This Book (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Benutzungsanleitung (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
Preface (Science Fiction Puzzles) (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Einführung (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
Preface to the Centennial Edition (Kaufmann, 1981) (The Annotated Hunting of the Snark) (1981)
Bibliography (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Literaturhinweise (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
First Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Erste Lösungen (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
Second Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Zweite Lösungen (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
Third Answers (Science Fiction Puzzle Tales) (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation: Dritte Lösungen (Denkspiele aus der Zukunft) [German] (1982)
Commentary (on Asimov's Foundation Trilogy) (1982)
Bibliography (1984)
Foreword (The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality) (1984)
Letters (Asimov's, November 1984) (1984) with Isaac Asimov
Letter (Analog, May 1985) (1985)
Introduction (Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty) (1986)
Preface (The No-Sided Professor, and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy) (1987)
Introduction (Sylvie and Bruno) (1988)
Introduction (The Club of Queer Trades) (1988)
The Enchanted Island of Yew: Baum's Adult Children's Book (1990)
Preface (More Annotated Alice) (1990)
Afterword (The Scarecrow of Oz) (1991)
Introduction (The Napoleon of Notting Hill) (1991)
Letter (Analog, October 1994) (1994)
Introduction (The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995) (1995)
The Tin Woodman of Oz: An Appreciation (1996)
Beyond Cultural Relativism (1996)
Can Time Stop? The Past Change? (1996)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1996)
Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner (1996)
Computers Near the Threshold? (1996)
Fearful Symmetry (1996)
Freud, Fleiss, and Emma's Nose (1996)
Gardner's Whys (1996)
Georges Perec (1996)
H. G. Wells in Russia (1996)
How Not to Talk About Mathematics (1996)
Infinity and Information (1996)
Is "Realism" a Dirty Word? (1996)
Isiah Berlin: Fox or Hedgehog? (1996)
Klingon and Other Artificial Languages (1996)
Lewis Carroll and His Alice Books (1996)
Mathematics and the Folkways (1996)
Mr. Apollinax Visits New York (1996)
Newcomb's Paradox (1996)
Part I: Physical Science (1996)
Part II: Social Science (1996)
Part III: Pseudoscience (1996)
Part IV: Mathematics (1996)
Part V: The Arts (1996)
Part VI: Philosophy (1996)
Part VII: Religion (1996)
Proofs of God (1996)
Pseudoscience in the Nineteenth Century (1996)
Puzzles in Ulysses (1996)
Quantum Weirdness (1996)
Superstrings (1996)
Surprise (1996)
The Computer as Scientist (1996)
The Curious Mind of Allan Bloom (1996)
The Irrelevance of "Everything" (1996)
The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle (1996)
The Laffer Curve (1996)
The Mystery of Free Will (1996)
The Popperism of Sir Karl (1996)
The Significance of "Nothing" (1996)
The Strange Case of Robert Maynard Hutchins (1996)
The Twin Paradox (1996)
The Ultimate Turtle (1996)
The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming (1996)
W. V. Quine (1996)
WAP, SAP, PAP, and FAP (1996)
Werner Heisenberg (1996)
White, Brown and Fractal Music (1996)
Who Was Shakespeare? (1996)
Why I am Not a Pragmatist (1996)
Why I am Not a Smithian (1996)
Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone (1996)
William James and Mrs. Piper (1996)
Introduction (The Country of the Blind) (1997)
Mother Goose in Prose (1997)
Word Play in L. Frank Baum's Fantasies (1998)
Introduction (The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown) (1998)
Notes (The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown) (1998)
Preface (Visitors from Oz) (1998)
Appendix (The Man Who Was Thursday) (1999)
Introduction (The Man Who Was Thursday) (1999)
Notes (The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) (1999)
The Annotated Thursday: G.K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday (annotations) (1999)
A Note About Lewis Carroll Societies (1999)
Introduction to More Annotated Alice (1999)
Preface to the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice (1999) also appeared as:
- Variant: Introduction (The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition) (2000)
- Variant: Introduction to the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice (2015)
Introduction (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) (2000)
Preface (The Annotated Wizard of Oz: A Centennial Edition) (2000)
Selected References (2000)
Hunting the Snark on the Web (2006)
New Preface to the Annotated Hunting of the Snark (2006)
Selected Bibliography (The Annotated Hunting of the Snark) (2006)
How the Oz CLub Started: and What Happened Next (2007)
Afterword (The Country of the Blind) (2011)
Introduction (The Country of the Blind) (2011)
Introduction (Little Wizard Stories of Oz) (2011)
Letter to Alan White (05-01-2005) (2014)
Introduction to the Knight Letter Annotations (2015)
Appendix (The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits) (unknown)
Bibliography (The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits) (unknown)
Introduction (Alice's Adventures Under Ground) (unknown)
Introduction (The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits) (unknown)
Preface for the Penguin Edition (The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits) (unknown)

Cover Art

Undiluted Hocus Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (2013)

Interior Art

Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981)

Reviews

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (1974) by L. Frank Baum
Infinity and the Mind (1982) by Rudy Rucker

Interviews with This Author

Interview: Martin Gardner (1982) by Scot Morris
"I Grew Up on the Oz Books": An Interview with Martin Gardner (2012) by Kevin Thomas

Non-Genre Titles

Nonfiction

In the Name of Science (1952) also appeared as:
- Variant: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1960)
Undiluted Hocus Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (2013)

Summary Bibliography: Martin Gardner

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