Novels
- The Missing Man (1975). MacLean was awarded the Nebula Award for her novella "Missing Man". The novella takes place in a balkanized New York City where an engineer working for the city's disaster planning section has his inside knowledge exploited to cause disasters. The novella first appeared in Analog (March, 1971). Novel version The Missing Man was published by Putnam in 1975.
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