Ralph William Slone (1914-1959) was a science fiction writer who used the pseudonym Ralph Williams. He contributed to the magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science. He was born in 1914 in Illinois and died in 1959 in Alaska. He died in a fishing accident, according to a letter written by his son.
Selected works
His most notable work, the novelette "Cat and Mouse," was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The story concerns a protagonist Ed Brown in Alaska as he discovers an alien civilization among wooded mountains.
Another novelette, of 1958, "Business As Usual During Alterations," has been cited many times. It describes economics changed by experimentation.
References
- Langford, David (12 Aug 2019). Authors : Williams, Ralph : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- "Bio:Ralph Williams - ISFDB". www.isfdb.org.
- "1960 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
- Gaiman, Neil. "How I learned to stop worrying and love the duplicator machines / Boing Boing". boingboing.net. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- Stableford, Brian (24 January 2012). Writing fantasy and science fiction. Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434449832.
- Stableford, Brian (2006). Science fact and science fiction : an encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0415974607.
External links
- Works by Ralph Williams at Faded Page (Canada)
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