Marks, Winston K
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1915-1979) US author of sf short stories who also wrote as Win Marks and used the pseudonyms Win Kinney and Ken Winney, each for just one story. He began publishing with "Mad Hatter" for Unknown in May 1940, but then, after "Manic Perverse" (October 1941 Astounding), was not heard of again until 1953 when he published The Water Eater (June 1953 Galaxy; 2010 ebook). He was then quite prolific, publishing nearly 60 further stories to 1959, with two final SF Magazine appearances in the late 1960s. His style was mildly hard-bitten and amusing; several of his stories were anthologized. A posthumous collection is The Test Colony and Other Stories (coll 2012). [DRL/PN/JC]
Winston Kinney Marks
born Spooner, Wisconsin: 1915
died 1979
works
collections and stories
- The Deadly Daughters (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared October 1958 Amazing: na/]
- Backlash (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1954 Galaxy: na/]
- Breeder Reaction (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1954 If: na/]
- Brown John's Body (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1955 Imagination: na/]
- Forsyte's Retreat (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared May 1954 If: na/]
- Mate in Two Moves (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared May 1954 Galaxy: na/]
- The Mind Digger (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1958 Imagination: na/]
- Tabby (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1954 If: na/]
- The Test Colony (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1954 If: na/]
- Unbegotten Child (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared November 1953 Galaxy: na/]
- The Water Eater (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared June 1953 Galaxy: na/]
- "The Test Colony" and Other Tales (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) [coll: in the publisher's Masters of Science Fiction series: pb/Max Reach]
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