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Lang, Allen Kim

(1928-    ) US author who began publishing sf with "Machine of Klamugra" for Planet Stories in November 1950 and published a good number of action stories in the following decade: twenty titles are recorded, including the comic novella "Cinderella Story" (May 1961 If), and "Blind Man's Lantern" (December 1962 Analog), in which hoped Cultural Engineering of a backward colony world involves the introduction of a sympathetically depicted Amish farming couple. Wild and Outside (1966) sends a US Baseball shortstop to civilize the feudal natives of the planet Melon (see also Games and Sports). [JC/DRL]

Allen Kim Lang

born Fort Wayne, Indiana: 31 July 1928

works

• Wild and Outside (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company, 1966) [hb/F Bozzo]
• The Chemically Pure Warriors (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2019) [dos: first appeared July 1962 Fantastic: pb/Stanley Pitt]

collections and stories

• Blind Man's Lantern (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [ebook: first appeared December 1962 Analog: na/]
• The Great Potlatch Riots (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [ebook: first appeared September 1959 Amazing: na/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 17:09 pm on 26 April 2024.
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