Dye, Charles
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1925-1960) US author who began publishing sf with "The Last Orbit" for Amazing in 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. 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/PN]
Charles Dudley Dye
born San Fernando, California: 12 October 1925
died circa 1960
works
- Prisoner in the Skull (New York: Abelard Press, 1952) [hb/]
- Regeneration (no place 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 (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: actually by Katherine MacLean: July 1952 Planet Stories: na/]
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