Chris Boyce

Joseph Christopher Boyce (1943 – 29 June 1999) was a Scottish science fiction author and fan.

For the convicted spy, see Christopher John Boyce.

He worked in the Reference Library of the Glasgow Herald newspaper, and was there when he died suddenly. His fiction works include Catchworld, for which he was best known, and which jointly won the Sunday Times/Gollancz prize for best SF Novel. He was a member of spaceflight groups including the British Interplanetary Society and he published articles and non-fiction books related to the subject. He was a regular attendee of fan meetings and was Guest of Honour at the science fiction convention "Invention" in 1983 in Glasgow. He co-founded the publishing company Dog and Bone Press in 1990 with his wife, Angela, and Alasdair Gray.

Bibliography
  • Catchworld (1975)
  • Brainfix (1980)
  • Blooding Mister Naylor (1990)

Nonfiction
  • Extraterrestrial Encounter: A Personal Perspective (1979)

Short works
  • الزي (1966) في سترفيلد
  • The Skytank Portfolio (1978) in Pulsar 1
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gollark: I was thinking about making an index fund type thing once firms exist.
gollark: I'm... not sure if it's actually possible to be generally net positive on this? Considering the weird way it works.
gollark: Honestly my main motivation for trying to find this out is so that I can make my automatic investor bot work.
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