[Kellis91789]

I liked his “Tool of the Trade” a lot. Soviet sleeper in the US working as a psychology professor for twenty years inadvertently discovers an audible tone that will put most people into a hypnotic state and do whatever he tells them.

[FredZarguna]

He has a number of 'concept pieces' that were pretty much stolen outright without attribution by later writers. Doll House of Joss Whedon fame does not credit him that I know of, although the idea and a number of tributary bits were stolen directly from All My Sins Remembered. In general he either made the novel with the idea, or didn't, unlike some authors who can even take something fairly lame and make a decent read of it.

Another author hot in about the same period was John Varley, whose first book, The Persistence of Vision should have made this list and did not. The Star Trek film with the whales stole one of the core ideas in The Ophiuchi Hotline from him, again without attribution. So it goes.