Ralph Williams (author)

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Ralph William Slone (1914-1959) was a science fiction writer who used the pseudonym Ralph Williams. He contributed to the magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science . He was born in 1914 in Illinois and died in 1959 in Alaska. [1] He died in a fishing accident, according to a letter written by his son. [2]

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Selected works

His most notable work, the novelette "Cat and Mouse," was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [3] The story concerns a protagonist Ed Brown in Alaska as he discovers an alien civilization among wooded mountains.

Another novelette, of 1958, "Business As Usual During Alterations," has been cited many times. [4] [5] [6] It describes economics changed by experimentation.

References

  1. ↑ Langford, David (12 Aug 2019). Authors : Williams, Ralph : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia . Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Bio:Ralph Williams - ISFDB". www.isfdb.org.
  3. ↑ "1960 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  4. ↑ Gaiman, Neil. "How I learned to stop worrying and love the duplicator machines / Boing Boing". boingboing.net. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  5. ↑ Stableford, Brian (24 January 2012). Writing fantasy and science fiction. Wildside Press. ISBN   9781434449832.
  6. ↑ Stableford, Brian (2006). Science fact and science fiction : an encyclopedia . Routledge. ISBN   0415974607.
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