Richard Wilson

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1986
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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The Hardtack Diary

1 - The Hardtack Diary (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Adventures in the Space Trade or with a Richard Wilson Checklist

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  • Indian Story Book

  • The Indian Story Book - Containing Tales From The Ramayana. The Mahabharata, And Other Early Sources

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the ori...

  • And Then The Town Took Off

    The town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what was undoubtedly the most spectacular feat of the century, it simply picked itself up one night and rose two full miles above Earth!...

  • Border Collies, a Gift of Love

    Struggling with depression brought on by the death of his wife's long battle with breast cancer and his retirement from a life-long career as an executive in the telecommunications industry, Richard reaches out for help to build a new life. Help was ...

  • The Inhabited

    In this fascinating tale from the height of science fiction's golden age, the inhabitants of Earth become vessels that are colonized by a telepathic species of aliens on the prowl for an exciting new world to conquer. It's a compelling look a...

  • The Story Writer and Other Stories

    THE HOUSE THAT TIME FORGOT is the third installment of John Pelan's new Classics of SF and Fantasy series published by Ramble House. In his introduction, John Pelan tells all about this enigmatic author and why his stories, which are a curious blend ...

  • The Vryan Crystal

    Tyr, the most powerful of all wizards and Mora, the beautiful enchantress and beloved of Tyr are given three tasks by Jehvo. Two of these tasks are filled with great danger and one is filled with great delight.  But there will be another task, u...

  • The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories

    The Man without a Planet and Other Stories is the 8th book in John Pelan's Classics of Fantasy and Science Fiction series from Ramble House. It collects 13 of Wilson's most intriguing stories from the digests of the 50s and 60s: The Watchers in the G...



  • American Redemption

    This is a compelling personal narrative of a young man consumed by ambition. The story contrasts humor and grief, explores how death impacts individual lives, and reveals how excessive greed brings ruin in its wake. Sex and fidelity are mixed togethe...

  • The Hardtack Diary

    The Hardtack Diary - 1

    A man will do many things for the woman he loves A mysterious man requests a private meeting with Hardington Tachman, university professor and naval intelligence officer. The visitor weaves a tale of intrigue that propels Hardtack, as he is better kn...

  • Double Take

    The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning. Before his strange adventure ended, young Paul Asher found himself going around in circles -- very peculiar circles indeed!...

  • The Girls from Planet 5

    When the beautiful invaders took over, only Texas fought back! A "different" science fiction novel by award-winning author Richard Wilson. Originally published in 1955, this is a science fiction romp that pokes fun at the B-Movie notion of beautiful ...

  • Return to Camlann

    In Return to Camlann, the third book in the fast-paced thriller series featuring Hardington Tachman (aka Hardtack), Hardtack is repeatedly mistaken for an identical twin brother he doesn’t even know exists. Following horrifying events in Africa...

  • 30 Day Wonder

    A different sort of alien invasion story. When the Monolithians decide to use a reporter to head up their public relations campaign, they know the average man has to be reached with their message. What could possibly go wrong?...

  • Inside Out

  • Mary Hell's

  • The Watchers in the Glade

    It wasn't a bad planet -- the food was good...if you managed to eat it!...

  • They Hilariated When I Hyperspaced for Earth

    "They hilariated when he hyperspaced toward Earth. “Nobody Earthwards,” they snickerly advised. But Young Harmish heeded not, being of stubborn stock, and onwards indefatigably toward the planet near Sol ringed by all that orbiting post-Sputnik ...



  • The Eight Billion

    THE EIGHT BILLION derives its title from O. Henry’s THE FOUR MILLION and Meyer Berger’s THE EIGHT MILLION. The “serried bristling city of New York does not, of course, contain eight billion people. If it did . . . well, read on. If ...

  • Those Idiots From Earth

  • The Carson Effect

    What do these things have in common? A secretary at a company goes to ask for reimbursement for a cab ride, and is told she has been overpaying into her pension and is given almost 6 months' salary. A guy goes to rob a bank, and is given more tha...

  • The Day They Had a War

  • The Evil Ones

    The aliens chose their first contact at random. Did it really matter that it was a lunatic asylum?...

  • The Far King

    It was ironic that Ann Bagley got mixed up with a bunch of extraterrestrials in a night club at the top of the Mile-Hi Building in Chicago. But maybe it was inevitable. She was the daughter of the minister of a flock in a place like Zion, Illinois, h...

  • The Girls From Planet Five

  • Time Out For Tomorrow

  • Strike

    It was big news for reporters throughout the solar system. After a cargo-liner en route from Earth to Mars blew up as it was coming in for a landing, killing all eight persons aboard, the workers went on strike. Spacemen had walked out in a demand fo...

  • The Big Fix

    As a drug, uru was a junkie's dream. As a planet, Uru was paradise. But combined, the two became a living hell!...



  • See Me Safely Home

    The ghost of the young woman in Elizabethan dress first appeared to me in the library of the big house that so recently had belonged to my parents. At first I thought it was my mother come back to the home she and my father had made for each other an...

  • A Rat for a Friend

    I made a new friend after the world ended. About my friend. He's a rat. Literally a rodent. Long-tailed, heavy-bodied. He terrified me at first but now we have an arrangement. I feed him what I can; he brings me what he can. That's what you have to d...

  • Stories from the Crown Posada

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Wilson has published 32 books.

Richard Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Rat for a Friend, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Richard Wilson, Adventures in the Space Trade or with a Richard Wilson Checklist, was published in January 1986.

Yes. Richard Wilson has 1 series.
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