Katherine MacLean

Katherine MacLean was an American science fiction author born on January 22, 1925, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She graduated from Barnard College in 1947 with a degree in economics and worked as a computer programmer for the United States government during World War II. MacLean began writing science fiction in the 1940s and became one of the few female authors in the genre at the time. Her first published story, "Defense Mechanism," appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1949. She went on to write several acclaimed short stories, including "The Snowball Effect," "Pictures Don't Lie," and "The Natives." In 1958, MacLean published her first novel, The Missing Man, which tells the story of a man who disappears during a space mission and the efforts to find him. The novel was well-received and established MacLean as a prominent voice in science fiction. One of MacLean's most famous works is the novella "Games," which was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1953. The story follows a group of telepathic