Allen, Steve
Entry updated 27 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1921-2000) US comedian, composer and author who began to publish work of specific genre interest with "The Public Hating" in Bluebook for January 1955, a tale in which the Psi Powers espoused by J B Rhine, who is named in the text, are oppressively amplified in the form of public executions (see Crime and Punishment). This well-known story – and most of his further tales invoking Fantastika, competently designed for readers of Slick magazines – was assembled in The Man Who Turned Back the Clock and Other Stories (coll 1995). [JC]
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
born New York: 26 December 1921
died Los Angeles, California: 30 October 2000
works (highly selected)
- Fourteen for Tonight (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955) [coll: hb/]
- The Man Who Turned Back the Clock and Other Stories (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1995) [coll: hb/Jacqueline Cook]
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