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Stephen Barr

Lifespan: 1904 – 1989
Nationality: American
Active: 1957 – 1962
Works held: 3

Stephen Barr (1904–1989) contributed witty, ingenious short stories to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and others in the 1950s and 60s, often turning on a neat logical or scientific twist. He was also well known for his popular books on topology and mathematical recreations, a characteristic meeting of the playful and the rigorous.

The works

Wrote across

Recurring themes

First Contact Social SF Psychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Cogan Alan Edward Nourse Albert Hernhuter Alfred Coppel Algis Budrys Basil Wells Bryce Walton Charles Beaumont

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall Garrett Stephen Marlowe Murray Leinster Mack Reynolds Alan Edward Nourse H. Beam Piper Robert Silverberg Fritz Leiber Bryce Walton Charles L. Fontenay

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