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	To Bring in the Steel by Donald M. Kingsbury
		Donald M. Kingsbury is a mathematician and science fiction writer very much of the Campbell school, who published one story as a young man in the early 1950s in Astounding and then did not appear again until the late 1970s, when he came to prominence with four long hard sf stories, including this one.
		Kingsbury is particularly adept at building complex hard sf settings, deeply rationalized and cleverly twisted into the unexpected, to provoke his characters into illuminating modes of behavior.
		Kingsbury is a master of the surprise twist and the unexpected reversal of roles, of fortune, of conventions, especially of conventional morals.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Steel.html (632 words)

	Donald Kingsbury: Psychohistorical Crisis
		Kingsbury quickly jumps back to Eron Osa's childhood to show him as an ambitious student and pawn to those who have their own ambitions.
		Kingsbury, on the other hand, frequently makes use of very complex sentence structures to create a novel which is as stylistically complex as its plot is, creating a feeling of convolution Despite this fault, Psychohistorical Crisis ranks as one of the best Foundation novels not written by Asimov, along with Brin’s Foundation’s Triumph.
		While Kingsbury’s writings won’t make anyone think of Asimov, his ideas, characters and locations are reminiscent of the early Foundation stories with the addition of a more complex explanation of psychohistory which includes alternatives and some deconstruction of the science created by either Hari Seldon or the Founder.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/kingsbury.html (539 words)

	Donald Kingsbury Biography and Summary
		Donald Kingsbury's works can be classified as "hard science fiction"; they feature speculations in such hard sciences as physics and aeronautics and demonstrate a solid grounding in scientific fact and principles.
		Donald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929) in San Francisco, California is an American – Canadian science fiction author.
		Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1948 until his retirement.
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Kingsbury (109 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Donald Kingsbury
		Donald MacDonald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929) in San Francisco, California is an American–Canadian science fiction author.
		Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1948 until his retirement in 1986.
		Kingsbury has never quite finished the story, noting as far back as 1984 that he was still 'polishing' it (see interview with Robert Sawyer) and as recently as the Readercon biography notes in July of 2006.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Donald_Kingsbury (211 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		series by Isaac Asimov, Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis postulates that human behavior is entirely predictable—as long as the scientists doing the math are measuring the actions of groups and not individuals.
		Unfortunately, Kingsbury's 761st century is in a period of stagnation.
		While the psychohistorians brought a welcome peace to the galaxy when they took over, their singular focus is breaking down, and their only major point of agreement now is that the tools of psychohistory must be kept from the masses.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue242/books.html (607 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Psychohistorical Crisis / Donald Kingsbury
		Kingsbury pays a respectful homage to Asimov while occasionally lightening the mood with nicely placed spoofery (including one hilarious parody of the Three Laws of Robotics).
		Kingsbury's dialogue is marvelous, conveying a sense of the literary and aristocratic while managing, somehow, not to take itself half that seriously.
		Sure, the book has its draggy bits, but the wealth of Kingsbury's ideas and the wonderful imagination with which he has told his story will, I think, be met with great esteem by serious readers tired of all the same old junk and looking for something fresh.
	www.sfreviews.net /psychohist.html (878 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Donald Kingsbury
		Kingsbury was born in San Francisco, but moved to Montreal in 1948, before making his first SF sale.
		In 1982, Analog serialized Kingsbury's first novel, Courtship Rite, a sweeping saga of an energy-poor planet where multiple marriages are the norm and cannibalism is a sacred ritual.
		Kingsbury's second novel, an expanded version of The Moon Goddess and the Son, appeared in 1986.
	www.sfwriter.com /egkingsb.htm (245 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Donald Kingsbury
		Kingsbury is 195 centimeters tall, a sprawling man with a piercing gaze.
		Donald Kingsbury: When I was a year-and-a-half, we moved to a gold-rush town in the interior of New Guinea.
		Kingsbury: It was a simple story about a bunch of guys who built an atomic rocketship and go to the Moon in 1965, get out of the ship, look around at a bleak landscape, pick up some rocks, and head back to Earth.
	www.sfwriter.com /kingsbur.htm (5773 words)

	Review of Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis
		Kingsbury constructs this hefty novel as a type of sequel to the original Foundation trilogy, except of course with a fellowship, a capital planet named Splendid Wisdom instead of Trantor, and a few other changes.
		Kingsbury explores the concept of the mathematical prediction of the future -- psychohistory -- to the fullest, and updates the context of the society in the book.
		Kingsbury's third method is to reiterate again and again the size of the galaxy.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/psychohistorical.htm (929 words)

	"On Books" by Peter Heck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here, Kingsbury takes on the question of psychohistory’s doctrine that its principles need to be kept secret from the masses, so the outcomes of its predictions won’t be subverted by people acting to prevent them.
		Kingsbury then jumps back to Eron’s youth, as he acquires the souped-up fam, learns the rudiments of mathematics and history in school, apprentices to a high-level Pscholar, and embarks on the project that finally gets him in trouble.
		Kingsbury keeps the reader amused by tossing off little satirical bits and deadpan cracks about the educational system, bureaucracies, science and superstition, social hierarchies, and SF in general.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0206/onbooks.shtml (2865 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Donald Kingsbury - Psychohistorical Crisis at Epinions.com
		Now there is Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis, which is either a brilliant tribute to or a blatant rip-off of the master, depending how you look at things.
		Unlike Asimov's galactic empire, Kingsbury's future society is still deeply rooted in the history and literature of 'Old Rith' (Earth), whose fam-less 'sapiens' inhabitants are seen as little better than animals but still manage to be the galaxy's most notorious hucksters, forgers, and conmen.
		Though they concieve of themselves as being unimaginably evolved, the 'modern' inhabitants of the galaxy have obviously not severed themselves from their evolutionary roots, and seem often to forget that their ancestors and even their beloved Founder were the self-same ape-men who now make their living selling 'genuine historical artifacts' to gullible tourists.
	www.epinions.com /content_66084310660 (650 words)

	Psychohistorical Crisis - Donald Kingsbury
		The primary setting of Donald Kingsbury’s novel is Splendid Wisdom, capital of a galactic empire of the distant future.
		Kingsbury’s novel comments upon that vision, and in fact turns out to be a devastating critique of it.
		Kingsbury clearly finds Russian history fascinating — his last novel, The Moon Goddess and the Son, gave close attention to the Matter of Russia — and a reading of Psychohistorical Crisis as an ironic mirroring of the crisis of Marxism seems plausible.
	www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Kingsbury/Psychohistorical-Crisis.html (687 words)

	Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury (Olson)
		Kingsbury's solution is to change all the names, but otherwise to retain the storyline.
		The book alternates between four main lines of story: flashbacks to the semi-executed Pscholar's youth, flashbacks to rebels who have developed a rudimentary psychohistory, a modern-day rebel right on Trantor and a top-ranking Psychohistorian who believes that the Second Foundation is acting wrongly and dangerously and futilely by suppressing popular use of psychohistory.
		Kingsbury does a fine job of stitching this all together making for a great story and a superb job of extrapolation on Foundation.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/PsychohistoricalCrisis.html (710 words)

	Donald (MacDonald) Kingsbury Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Donald MacDonald Kingsbury was born on 12 February 1929 in San Francisco.
		In 1930 his father was hired to assist in the development of the gold mines in New Guinea.
		The only means of traveling to and from their new home was by plane, and Kingsbury spent his early years becoming.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/donald-macdonald-kingsbury-dlb (200 words)

	Obituaries: 040903 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kingsbury was born in Ellenburg Depot on Feb. 10, 1914, the daughter of John and Addie (Miller) Gibson.
		She married Ronald D. Kingsbury in Chateaugay, N.Y., in 1932, he died in 1982.
		Kingsbury was a member of the Mooers United Methodist Church.
	www.pressrepublican.com /News/obits/2003/04092003ob.htm (432 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| John Clute on Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis
		Kingsbury's enterprise turns out to be darker and more destructive than a simple modernizing homage to the colossus of ago; and it may be for this reason that he has not been given permission by the Asimov estate to place his tale explicitly in the Foundation universe (as Gregory Benford did in Foundation's Fear [1997]).
		The place is the same: a galaxy inhabited by trillions upon trillions of human beings with nary an alien in sight, and dominated, all twenty-eight million inhabited systems of it, by one city planet named not Trantor but Splendid Wisdom.
		At the deepest level, Kingsbury's hilarious, ponderous, sly swift behemoth of a tale homages the voice of Isaac Asimov speaking.
	www.infinitematrix.net /columns/clute/clute3.html (889 words)

	Forward and Backward with the Foundation
		Kingsbury in effect takes the admirable qualities of a computer-- quickness, storage capacity, rationality, the ability to create and manipulate mental aids-- and makes them directly available to the human brain.
		Kingsbury has scaled back psychohistory's pretensions-- no predictions about individuals, such as Asimov freely indulged-- but I'm not really convinced that mass statistics are enough.
		Kingsbury has a cute formula for female characters: they're just as alarmingly competent as the men-- but unlike them, they're not partially stupefied by sex.
	www.zompist.com /asimov.htm (6215 words)

	Psychohistorical Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yes, Kingsbury's novel is a sequel to Isaac Asimov's original "Foundation" trilogy, but unauthorized by the Asimov estate.
		Kingsbury goes further, and rationalizes all those mutant mental powers.
		Nothing works quite as intended, but Eron's erratic education, including a wonderfully silly visit to the planet-wide heritage industry of Earth, steers him towards the Kingsbury argument that psychohistory's ultimate defence is also its worst flaw.
	www.ansible.co.uk /writing/psychris.html (511 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Far Futures - Gregory Benford - Paperback
		Donald Kingsbury contributes Historical Crisis, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy.
		Joe Haldeman's ``For White Hill,'' which also deals with the pending extinction of life on Earth, appears, as does Sheffield's considerably weaker tale, to be a love story-at least until its denouement, in which one of its artist-protagonists creates her ultimate work of art.
		Donald Kingsbury's lengthy ``Historical Crisis,'' which loosely elaborates upon Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, again affirms its author's ability to transcend and honor his sources.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=QK5rxfTCVv&isbn=0312863799&itm=18 (734 words)

	Amazon.fr : Psychohistorical Crisis: Livres en anglais: Donald Kingsbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amazon.fr : Psychohistorical Crisis: Livres en anglais: Donald Kingsbury
		Possessed of greatly reduced intelligence, Osa attempts to recover his memories and create a life for himself while uncovering the real reason for his penalty.
		Kingsbury (Courtship Rite) bases his latest novel on an article by the late Isaac Asimov expounding on the basis of his Foundation stories, producing a complex and credible tribute to Asimov's classic series.
	www.amazon.fr /Psychohistorical-Crisis-Donald-Kingsbury/dp/0765341956 (507 words)

	Far Futures
		Since the writers in question, Poul Anderson, Charles Sheffield, Joe Haldeman, Greg Bear and Donald Kingsbury, are among the hardest of hard-science fiction writers, he also ensured that all this time would be put to good didactic purpose.
		This is more or less the state of things in Donald Kingsbury's "Historical Crisis," the only really cheerful piece in the book.
		Kingsbury took the liberty of updating Asimov's premises to rectify the two major problems that readers today have with the original Foundation books: the lack of computers and the fact that the kind of linear extrapolation that "psychohistory" seems to require flies in the face of chaos theory.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/fafu.htm (1979 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Kingsbury: Psychohistorical Crisis—Revolt Against Asimov's Second Empire
		This trilogy is focused on the inception of psychohistory.
		Kingsbury's novel, on the other hand, examines the "other end" of Seldon's Plan, in which the stagnant, declining first Empire has been replaced by the (now stagnant, declining) Second Empire.
		I found the Kingsbury vision of the far future much truer to Asimov's youthful vision of Galactic civilization than even some of Asimov's own later Foundation novels, in which the capability of men to control and progress their own destiny is replaced by a behind-the-scenes deus ex machina, R. Daneel Olivaw.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/02/02/163233.php (1224 words)

	Paper Frigate: Kingsbury: Psychohistorical Crisis—Revolt Against Asimov's Second Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Psychohistorical Crisis, Donald Kingsbury looks at the re-established Second Empire, over 2700 years after the crafting of the Seldon Plan.
		In this far-distant future, Seldon's name is lost in the mists of history, and psychohistory is a occult practice, whose "Psycholars" maintain their Galactic rule by keeping the tenets of their science secret.
		Kingsbury's earlier work, "Courtship Rite" is a masterpiece begging for a sequel.
	paperfrigate.blogspot.com /2005/02/kingsbury-psychohistorical.html (706 words)

	The Impact Reaction Engine
		The impact reaction engine was proposed by Donald Kingsbury, Clifford D. Simak, and Roger Arnold as early as 1979.
		It is a variant of continuous inverted aerobraking, using a 150 km long rail which releases oxygen as kinetic fuel and possibly adds hydrogen as on-board fuel.
		Donald Kingsbury, Clifford D. Simak, Roger Arnold: "The Moon Goddess and the Son", Analog Science Fiction Fact, December 1979, pp.
	www.walthelm.net /inverted-aerobraking/ImpactReactionEngine.html (2003 words)

	The Pawtucket Times - Donald Kingsbury
		He was born in Mooers New York, the son of the late William and Isabel (Sartwell) Kingsbury.
		He leaves one son, William Kingsbury and his wife Linda; Four daughters, Shirley Quinn, Arlene Murray and her husband Raymond, Lorraine McShane and her husband James and Elizabeth (Rourke) DeCosta; He leaves thirty five grand children; seventy two great grand children and three great great grand children.
		He was the father of the late Beverly Ann Kingsbury and Isabel (Bazinet) Carroll.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17810747&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=574990&rfi=6 (241 words)

	Courtship Rite - Donald Kingsbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Donald Kingsbury (born 1929) is a science fiction author.
		Donald L Finkel William Ray Arney - Educating for Freedom: The Paradox of Pedagogy [The Arnold and Caroline Rose Book Series of the American Sociological assocIation] - 0813522013
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	www.bookisbnsearch.com /238776_donald-kingsbury_067145224xcourtshipriteamericanliteraturewriters.html (270 words)

	Donald H. Kingsbury 1922-2005
		SIDNEY -- Donald H. Kingsbury, 82, of Pond Road, Sidney died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville.
		Donald was born on Dec. 23, 1922, in Frankfort, the son of Elmer and Sarah Kingsbury.
		He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Thelma; five children, Pamela Bacon and husband, Robert, Bruce Kingsbury and wife, Dotti, Brian Kingsbury and girlfriend, Laurie Guptil, D. Brent Kingsbury and wife Jeanne, and Jane Burke and husband, Robert; nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, one sister-in-law, Sybil Cloukia; and several nieces and nephews.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /obits/stories/1285925.shtml (240 words)

	Gregory Benford: Far Futures - an infinity plus review
		The results are genuinely inspired, illustrating rather well the thesis that tales of the far future bring out the inventive and philosophical best in their authors; in Hard SF's case, this best is a rigour of the exotic.
		"Historical Crisis" by Donald Kingsbury is a rigorous, and mordant, jest at Isaac Asimov's expense.
		Where Kingsbury is content to direct his fire at a fellow purveyor of Hard SF, Charles Sheffield reserves his satiric hostility for the scientifically illiterate.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/farfut.htm (824 words)

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