Chad Oliver

Chad Oliver (born Symmes Chadwick Oliver 1928 died 1993) was an award winning science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Oliver lived in Texas almost all of his adult life. He attended the University of Texas for bachelor and master degrees in English and Anthropology in 1951 and 1952 but obtained his doctorate in Anthropology at UCLA in 1961. He returned to Texas University as a Professor of Anthropology and there he remained in several capacities until his death.

In addition to writing science fiction, he also wrote westerns.

Chad Oliver loved fly-fishing for trout, played the jazz piano and was a jazz aficionado, and was a pipe collector.

Selected Bibliography

Novels

• Mists of the Dawn (1952)
• Shadows in the Sun (1954)
• The Winds of Time (1956)
• Unearthly Neighbors (1960)
• The Shores of Another Sea (1971)
• Giants in the Dust (1976)
• Broken Eagle (1989)
• The Cannibal Owl (1994)

Collections

• Another Kind (1955)
• The Edge of Forever (1971)
• Far from This Earth and Other Stories (2003)
• Artifacts (2003)
• A Star Above and Other Stories (2003)

Essays

• P.S.'s Feature Flash (1944)
• Afterthoughts To "the Edge Of Forever" (1971)
• Afterthoughts (1971)
• Oliver-Editors Correspondence (1982) with Anthony Boucher
• Afterword (Unearthly Neighbors) (1984)
• Introduction to Unpublished Stories (1988)

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