Question: Tripoint is a science fiction novel by an author born in which year ?
Context: Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books.  He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel ("The Other World") using the pen name J. Harvey Bond.  Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym Franklin Hadley. Kathleen Ann Goonan (born 14 May 1952) is an American science fiction writer.  Several of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award.  Her debut novel "Queen City Jazz" was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her novel "In War Times" was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel for their 2008 reading list.  In July 2008, In War Times won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.  Her most recent novel, "This Shared Dream" was released in July 2011 by Tor Books. Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the "Ilium/Olympos" cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the "Iliad" on an alternate Earth and Mars.  These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods.  Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (or "In Search of Lost Time") and Vladimir Nabokov's novel "".  In July 2004, "Ilium" received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2004. Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.  It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983.  It was additionally nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.  It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.  The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact.  The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology.  "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license.  Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014. Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.  She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe.  She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.  Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies. Double Jeopardy is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt.  It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1952, and reprinted as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club in 1953.  The first paperback edition was issued in digest form by Galaxy Publishing Corporation as its "Galaxy Science Fiction Novel" #30 in 1957; a second paperback edition was issued by Curtis Books in 1967.  The novel has been translated into Italian.  The book is a combination of two shorter pieces, the novellas "Double Jeopardy" and "The Square Cube Law," originally published in the magazine "Thrilling Wonder Stories" in the issues for April, 1952 and June, 1952, respectively. Tripoint is a science fiction novel by the United States science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, first published by Warner Books in September 1994.  It is one of Cherryh's Merchanter novels and is set in the author's Alliance-Union universe. The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story published in English in the preceding calendar year.  It is the short fiction counterpart of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, awarded by the same organization.  The award is named in honor of Theodore Sturgeon, one of the leading authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction from 1939 to 1950.  The award was established in 1987 by his heirs—including his widow, Jayne Sturgeon—and James Gunn, at the time the Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript").  It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.  The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues.
Answer: 1942