Dye, Charles
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1925-1960) US author who served in the US Air Force during World War Two and began publishing sf with "The Last Orbit" in Amazing for February 1950. He was active for less than half a decade, soon publishing his only sf novel, Prisoner in the Skull (1952), in which ordinary Homo sapiens and a form of Superman engage in thriller-like confrontations. After its US publication this novel was also serialized in New Worlds from December 1954 to February 1955.
He was married briefly (1950-1953) to Katherine MacLean, who wrote The Man Who Staked the Stars (July 1952 Planet Stories; 2010) and "Syndrome Johnny" (July 1951 Galaxy) under his name. The latter story contains an amazingly early account of a Genetic Engineering technique (gene splicing), in which a "piggyback" virus transports genetic material (a silicon-using gene) into human cells. [JC/DRL]
Charles Dudley Dye
born San Fernando, California: 12 October 1925
died 1960 [buried December 1960]
works
- Prisoner in the Skull (New York: Abelard Press, 1952) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Regeneration (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2006) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1951 Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories (see Future Fiction): na/]
- The Man Who Staked the Stars (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: actually by Katherine MacLean: July 1952 Planet Stories: na/]
- Momentum (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2006) [story: ebook: first appeared July 1951 Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories (see Future Fiction): na/]
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