Cox, Arthur Jean
Entry updated 16 April 2021. Tagged: Author, Fan.
(1929-2016) US fan and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Twilight Planet" (June 1951 F&SF) as Arthur J Cox; he also wrote as Ralph Carghill, Jean Cox, Gene Cross, William Dean and John Thames Rokesmith. His first novel was Nude in Orbit (1968) as by Gene Cross, a spicy "adult" murder mystery in which the titular naked woman is found floating in space (see Crime and Punishment). Selected stories and a second sf detective novel – set in the Asteroid belt and also featuring Aliens – are assembled in The Asteroid Murder Case: A Science Fiction Mystery / A Collector of Ambroses and Other Odd Items (omni 2011). [DRL]
Arthur Jean Cox
born 21 January 1929
died 2016
works
- Nude in Orbit (San Diego, California: Greenleaf Classics/Nightstand Books, 1968) as by Gene Cross [pb/Darrel Millsap]
- The Asteroid Murder Case: A Science Fiction Mystery / A Collector of Ambroses and Other Odd Items (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2011) [omni: pb/]
- A Collector of Ambroses and Other Rare Items (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2011) [coll: ebook: vt of second part of the above: na/]
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