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Stephen Tall

Lifespan: 1908 – 1981
Nationality: American
Active: 1955
Works held: 1

Stephen Tall (1908–1981), pen name of biologist Compton Crook, brought a scientist’s eye to his fiction, best known for the stories of the exploration ship Stardust and the novel The Ramsgate Paradox. The Compton Crook Award for best first SF novel is named in his honour. A late-blooming, scientifically grounded talent.

The works

1955

The Lights on Precipice Peak

Wrote across

Recurring themes

First Contact Hard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Albert Teichner Alfred Bester Alfred Coppel Algis Budrys Allen Kim Lang Arthur Porges August Derleth

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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