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Colin Kapp (b. 1928) is a British science fiction author.

Contents 1 Writing career 2 Works 2.1 Cageworld series 2.2 Chaos series 2.3 Standalone novels 2.4 Short stories 2.4.1 Unorthodox Engineers 2.4.2 Other stories 3 External links

A contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers. His 1984 short story "Something in the City" was eerily prescient about the situation faced by the US military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In this story, soldiers occupying a Middle Eastern country after overthrowing a dictator are being picked off by booby traps (similar to Improvised Explosive Devices) controlled by an artificial intelligence left behind by the defeated ruler.

1. Search for the sun! (1982) (also published as Cageworld)
2. The Lost worlds of Cronus (1982)
3. The Tyrant of Hades (1984)
4. Star Search (1984)

• The Patterns of Chaos (1972)
• The Chaos Weapon (1977)

• The Dark Mind (1964) (also published as Transfinite Man)
• The Wizard of Anharitte (1973)
• The Survival Game (1976)
• Manalone (1977)
• The Ion War (1978)
• The Timewinders (1980)

• "The Railways Up on Cannis" (1959)
• "The Subways of Tazoo" (1964)
• "The Pen and the Dark" (1966)
• "Getaway from Getawehi" (1969)
• "The Black Hole of Negrav" (1975)

Collected in The Unorthodox Engineers (1979)

• "Breaking Point" (1959)
• "Survival Problem" (1959)
• "Lambda I" (1962)
• "The Night-Flame" (1964)
• "Hunger Over Sweet Waters" (1965)
• "Ambassador to Verdammt" (1967)
• "The Imagination Trap" (1967)
• "The Cloudbuilders" (1968)
• "I Bring You Hands" (1968)
• "Gottlos" (1969)
• "The Teacher" (1969)
• "Letter from an Unknown Genius" (1971)
• "What the Thunder Said" (1972)
• "Which Way Do I Go For Jericho?" (1972)
• "The Old King's Answers" (1973)
• "Crimescan" (1973)
• "What The Thunder Said" (1973)
• "Mephisto and the Ion Explorer" (1974)
• "War of the Wastelife" (1974)
• "Cassius and the Mind-Jaunt" (1975)
• "Something in the City" (1984)
• "An Alternative to Salt" (1986)

• Biography (archived)
• Bibliography kept by Jarl Totland
• Colin Kapp at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography at SciFan