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Five Books & Two Stories by Mark Clifton
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Overview: Mark Clifton (1906 - 1963) was an American science fiction writer. Most of his work fits into one of two series. The "Bossy" sequence was written alone, and in collaboration with both Alex Apostolides and Frank Riley. The "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is lighter in tone, was mostly written solo, including the novel When They Come From Space, although there was one collaboration with Apostolides. Clifton gained his greatest success with his novel They'd Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine), co-written with Riley, which was serialized in Astounding in 1954 and went on to win the Hugo Award, perhaps the most contentious novel ever to win the award. Clifton began publishing in May of 1952 with the often anthologized story "What Have I Done?".
Clifton is also known today for his short story "Star, Bright", his first of three appearances in Horace Gold's Galaxy (July 1952), about a super-intelligent toddler with psi abilities. From Clifton's correspondence we know that Gold "editorially savaged" the story, which appeared in severely truncated or altered form. The story has been compared favorably to Kuttner and Moore's "Mimsy Were the Borogoves", which was published in Astounding nine years earlier.
Clifton worked as a personnel manager during his life and interviewed close to 100,000 people. This experience formed much of Clifton's attitude about the delusions people entertain of themselves, but also the greatness of which they are capable.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy



Eight Keys to Eden (1960) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2018)
When Eden--the Earth colony eleven light years away--goes silent and fails to answer any communications from the mother planet, Earth's government goes into a panic. Has something tragic happened on a world already proven to have no intelligent, dangerous lifeforms? Or, are the colonists purposely disregarding the messages for some reason of their own? What could be the real explanation for the mysterious silence of a disciplined, scientific colony? To learn the answer, Earth's leaders turn to the Extrapolators--the honored group of men and women with an almost superhuman ability to see to the core of any problem, who assign a probationary Extrapolator, Calvin Gray, to the hazardous journey to Eden, where he will win full admission into the ranks to the Extrapolators if he solves whatever problems he finds there. But, even with his special Extrapolator training, Grey is not prepared for the extent or nature of the disaster that has struck the colony.

Sense from Thought Divide (1955) SS
What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?

Star Bright (1952) SS
"An Impressive Innovator, One of the 12 Most Influential Writers of SF!" Barry Maltzberg.
This is one of his classic early feminist work of a young girl with superpowers, "Star Bright"

The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack
Table of Contents:
STAR BRIGHT (1952)
THE KENZIE REPORT (1953)
WE’RE CIVILIZED!
SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE (1955)
A WOMAN’S PLACE (1955)
DO UNTO OTHERS (1958)
THEY’D RATHER BE RIGHT (1958) [Part 1]
THEY’D RATHER BE RIGHT (1958) [Part 2]
THEY’D RATHER BE RIGHT (1958) [Part 3]
WHAT NOW, LITTLE MAN? (1959)
EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN (1960) [Part 1]
EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN (1960) [Part 2]

They’d Rather Be Right: The Original 4-part Novel (1954) with Frank Riley (ed. Jerry eBooks 2020)
They'd Rather be Right won the 1955 Hugo award for Best Novel
Two professors create an advanced cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy." Bossy can "optimise your mind...and give you eternal youth into the bargain, but only if you're ready to abandon all your favourite prejudices." However, when given the choice of admitting they were wrong and therefore being able to benefit from Bossy's abilities, most people would rather be right, and Bossy's ability to confer immortality is almost made ineffective by humanity's fear of "her."

They'd Rather be Right, the book edited version (1957) [in 1958 and later editions renamed The Forever Machine] (ed. Jerry e Books 2013)

Ralph Kennedy 05 When They Come from Space (1962) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2017)
Through a case of mistaken identity Ralph Kennedy is pressed into service of the Space Navy, Extraterrestrial Life Department. When he is sure he can’t escape—because a mirthful mix-up of records has convinced thick-headed bureaucrats that he is their man—he settles down to a job about which he knows nothing.
Ralph’s duties assume importance when a mysterious Black Fleet hovers over Washington, threatening planetary security. He is helped out of this situation by the appearance of a squadron of globes which beat off the Black Fleet. But the aliens from the globes, who have studied the Earth and who have patterned themselves after humans, create more problems than did the Black Fleet.
This science fiction novel—which lampoons everything from governmental red tape to the power of the press—is as exciting as it is delightful.

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See also The Complete Short Fiction by Mark Clifton: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=3903524&hilit=Mark+Clifton

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