Joseph Lee Green (born January 14, 1931) is an American science fiction author and a charter member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is a prolific short story author best known for his novel Gold the Man. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, Polish and Dutch.

Biography

Joseph Lee Green was born on January 14, 1931. He received his BA from the University of Alabama and has variously worked as a mill hand, construction worker and a supervisor for Boeing. His chief employment was in the American space program for which he worked for 37 years, retiring from NASA as Deputy Chief of the Education Office at Kennedy Space Center. His specialty was the preparation of NASA fact sheets, brochures and other such publications for the general public, in which complex scientific and engineering concepts were explained in layman's language.

Fiction

Novels

Short fiction collections

Short fiction

• "Plague Ship", Aberrant Dreams, Autumn 2006.
• "Turtle Love", Welcome To The Greenhouse, original anthology, February 2011.
• "A Killing In Kind", "FictionVale", third issue, about June 2014.

Articles

• "Kennedy Space Center Will Give You A Lift", Odyssey January/February 1979.
• "Our Five Days With John W. Campbell" SFWA Bulletin, Fall 2006.
• "Three Days With Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton", New York Review Of SF, November 2009.