Robert F. Young

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1956
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Little Red Schoolhouse

  • Star Mother

  • The Dandelion Girl

  • The Servant Problem

    Selling a whole town, and doing it inconspicuously, can be a little difficult … either giving it away freely, or in a more normal sense of “selling”. People don't quite believe it…....

  • Starfinder

  • The Last Yggdrasill

  • Eridahn

    In 1998, Jim Carpenter drove a time machine for a living, and his last job seemed simple enough: go back in time 74 million years and find out how a human skeleton got mixed up with dinosaur bones -- millions of years before that could possibly happe...

  • The Vizier's Second Daughter

    Set back in time to kidnap Sheherazade, narrator of the "Arabian Nights," the hero snatches a lovely lady from the sultan's harem only to discover that he has stolen the wrong woman, Sheherazade's little sister...

  • What Bleak Land



  • Memories of the Future: Stories by Robert F. Young

  • The House That Time Forgot and Other Stories

    THE HOUSE THAT TIME FORGOT and Other Stories is the third collection of space adventures from the SF digests in John Pelan's new series: Classics of SF and Fantasy. John introduces Robert F. Young and calls him the "Poet Laureate of the Spaceways" fo...

  • The Blond From Barsoom

  • Memories of the Future

    Robert F. Young published frequently in major markets from the 1950s to his death in 1985. Disney even optioned film rights to one of his books. However, probably because he wrote few novels, he was never widely known. His better stories, many collec...

  • The Worlds of Robert F. Young

    The worlds of Robert F. Young are unlike any others, and they are all stamped with the hallmark of excellence that is distinctively his own. Some of these worlds are strange and alien, distant in time and space; some are as familiar as your own ba...

  • Sweet Tooth

    Sugardale three miles, the state highway sign said. Dexter Foote turned into the side road that the arrow indicated. He had no way of knowing it at the time, but by his action he condemned his new convertible to a fate worse than death. The side road...

  • Bruggil's Bride

    She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten ...

  • The Wistful Witch

    Melanie learns the perils of being a witch in the suburbs. Neighborhood wives, gossip, insipid social gatherings... These are the perils she must face. Is magic really worth it?...

  • The Courts of Jamshyd

    Ryan is a member of a tribe of post-apocalyptic primitives. Each night, the tribe chants about how their ancestors were "the putrefiers of the lakes and the rivers; the consumers, the destroyers, the murderers of the living land; the selfish, the...

  • Ghosts



  • Star Mother and six more stories

  • The House That Time Forgot

    For want of a better name, she called them Obbly-Gobblies. Thus for, the only evidence of their presence in the house had been an occasional flapping of their wings, but just the same she was certain that the term fitted them.Robert F. Young was a Hu...

  • Pilgrims' Project

    A man under sentence of marriage would be lucky to have a girl like Julia assigned to him—or would he?Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stori...

  • Redemption

    To love a saint is hard. To be one, that is harder. But rejoice, now in the search of Capt. Nathaniel Drake for Saint Annabelle Leigh. For you will read this story many times in the future, as it assumes what will be its rightful reputation as a clas...

  • Robert F. Young Super Pack

    Here is the Robert F. Young collection you’ve been waiting for: over 200,000 words and more than 600 pages long, making it the largest collection of Young’s work ever released. Robert F. Young was a Hugo-nominated author known for his lyrical and...

  • Robot Son

    These were shocking things she said—shocking in their strangeness—contradicting everything . . . Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stor...

  • The Star Fisherman

    Men have fought and died, sung and cried, stolen and lied for love. Christopher Stark did all of these—and more. Over his life loomed two gigantic images: that of the beautiful Priscilla, and that of the mysterious fisher-figure in the reac...

  • Thirty Days Hath September

    When he saw the school teacher in the window, he had to have her. Not only would the robot be a great help for his son's lessons, but she could also help with the housework. He never dreamed what trouble his impulse buy would unleash... Classic scien...

  • Collector's Item

    We’ve often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical ...

  • The Blonde from Barsoom

    When scifi writer Harold Worthington Smith imagines himself on Mars, rescuing a buxom princess from green-skinned aliens, the fantasy suddenly becomes all too real. Harold finds himself stranded on the red planet's dead sea, facing down an army o...



  • Lord of Rays

    Lt. Comdr. Guest is alone aboard the spaceship Helios 5, orbiting close to the sun, when he spots a strange ancient Egyptian funeral boat. On the boat lies a mummified figure wearing the mask of Osiris. As Guest watches, a man appears reading from a ...

  • THE GIRL IN HIS MIND By ROBERT F. YOUNG

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  • A Knyght Ther Was

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    But the Knyght was a little less than Perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his "castle" was much more mobile - timewise! - than it had any business being! A fantastic science fiction tale of action and adventure, created by t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert F. Young has published 32 books.

Robert F. Young does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lord of Rays, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Robert F. Young, Little Red Schoolhouse, was published in March 1956.

No. Robert F. Young does not write books in series.
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