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James Causey

Lifespan: 1924 – 2003
Nationality: American
Active: 1953 – 1955
Works held: 5

James Causey (1924–2003), a Compton-born writer, began in Weird Tales in 1943 and, after wartime service, published science fiction in Galaxy and its rivals in the 1950s before turning to well-regarded crime novels like Frenzy. One of his stories was adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A versatile professional across the genre magazines and the noir paperback.

The works

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Social SF First Contact Colonization Dystopia Psychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Bryce Walton Evelyn E. Smith Frank M. Robinson Frederik Pohl George O. Smith H. B. Fyfe H. Beam Piper

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen Marlowe Randall Garrett Robert Silverberg Bryce Walton Alan Edward Nourse H. Beam Piper Murray Leinster Winston K. Marks Charles L. Fontenay Poul Anderson

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