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William Tenn


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
May 09, 1920

Died
February 07, 2010

Website

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction


William Tenn is the pseudonym of Philip Klass. He was born in London on May 9, 1920, and emigrated to the United States with his parents before his second birthday. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After serving in the United States Army as a combat engineer in Europe, he held a job as a technical editor with an Air Force radar and radio laboratory and was employed by Bell Labs.

He began writing in 1945 and wrote academic articles, essays, two novels, and more than 60 short stories.

His first story, 'Alexander the Bait' was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946. Stories like 'Down Among the Dead Men', 'The Liberation of Earth', and 'The Custodian' quickly established him as a fine, funny, and thoughtful satirist.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 8,419 ratings · 1,062 reviews · 316 distinct works • Similar authors
Of Men and Monsters
3.77 avg rating — 1,126 ratings — published 1968 — 34 editions
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Time in Advance
3.90 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions
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Of All Possible Worlds
3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1955 — 41 editions
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Immodest Proposals: The Com...
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The Human Angle
3.71 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1956 — 13 editions
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Project Hush
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3.13 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1954 — 9 editions
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The Liberation of Earth
3.66 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1953
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The Wooden Star
3.60 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions
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The Square Root of Man
3.51 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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“All those years of lurid magazine covers showing extremely nubile females being menaced in three distinct colors by assorted monstrosities; those horror movies, those invasion-from-outer-space novels, those Sunday supplement fright splashes—all those sturdy psychological ruts I had to re-track. Not to mention the shudders elicited by mention of 'worms,' the regulation distrust of even human "furriners,” the superstitious dread of creatures who had no visible place to park a soul.

("Betelgeuse Bridge)”
― William Tenn, The Campfire Collection: Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters
tags: aliens, pulp-fiction, sci-fi
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