Williams, Ralph
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1914-1959) Working name of Ralph William Slone, US author of almost a dozen stories published in Astounding and other SF Magazines from 1940 to 1959. "Business as Usual, During Alterations" (July 1958 Astounding) deals optimistically with the Economics of free commodities made available by Matter Duplication, suggesting that this Technology – initially introduced by devious Aliens to disrupt world society – would simply flip America from an economy based on scarcity to an almost indistinguishable mirror-image system of abundance and copious easy credit. [DRL]
Ralph William Slone
born Effingham, Illinois: 24 February 1914
died Kachemak Bay, Alaska: 1959 [drowned at sea]
works
- Cat and Mouse (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared June 1959 Astounding: na/]
- The Gun Runners (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2019) [story: ebook: first appeared December 1954 If: na/]
- Race Riot (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2019) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1955 If: na/]
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