Chad Oliver

Symmes Chadwick Oliver (30 March 1928 – 9 August 1993) was an American anthropologist and science fiction and Western writer.

Short fiction

 * Ignorance always carries a price tag.
 * Field Expedient in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955, p. 91


 * One thing about a science: it works. If an engineer knows his business, his bridge does not fall down.
 * Field Expedient in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955, p. 99

The Winds of Time (1956)

 * All page numbers are from the trade paperback reprint published by Avon in Equinox Books SF Rediscovery ISBN 0-380-00318-X


 * His eyes told him the truth: Lake City was not precisely a ghost town, but the coffin was ready and the hole was dug.
 * Chapter 1 (p. 2)


 * He talked, and listened, and tried to do the hardest thing of all. He tried to understand.
 * Chapter 4 (p. 27)


 * He has looked long at the stars, and that is the beginning of wisdom.
 * Chapter 6 (p. 38)