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Miriam Allen De Ford

Lifespan
1888 – 1975
Nationality
American
Active
1955 – 1963
Works held
8

Miriam Allen deFord (1888–1975) was a suffragist, socialist and pioneering journalist who turned to fiction, publishing widely in both mystery and science fiction, her SF, much of it in Boucher’s F&SF, tackling nuclear war, alienation and changing sexual roles. A dedicated Fortean who did fieldwork for Charles Fort himself, she gathered her genre stories in Xenogenesis and Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of Where the Phph Pebbles Go Where the Phph Pebbles Go
  2. 1962
    Cover of The Akkra case The Akkra case
  3. 1961
    Cover of Oh, Rats! Oh, Rats!
  4. 1959
    Cover of Not Snow Nor Rain Not Snow Nor Rain
  5. 1958
    Cover of The Eel The Eel
  6. 1956
    Cover of The Margenes The Margenes
  7. 1955
    Cover of One Way One Way Cover of Time out for redheads Time out for redheads

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFTime TravelDystopiaFirst ContactPost-ApocalypticColonizationPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Frederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondRandall GarrettRobert F. Young

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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