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Winston K. Marks

Lifespan
1915 – 1978
Nationality
American
Active
1953 – 1958
Works held
23

Winston K. Marks (1915–1978) began publishing in 1940 but hit his stride in the 1950s, when he turned out close to sixty stories for Galaxy, Astounding and their rivals in a mildly hard-bitten, amusing style. Several were widely anthologised; a posthumous collection, The Test Colony, gathered his work in 2012. A characteristic craftsman of the magazine boom.

The works

  1. 1958
    Cover of Go to sleep, my darling Go to sleep, my darling Cover of The Deadly Daughters The Deadly Daughters Cover of The Mind Digger The Mind Digger
  2. 1955
    Cover of Bleedback Bleedback Cover of Brown John's Body Brown John's Body Cover of Kid Stuff Kid Stuff Cover of Never Gut-Shoot a Wampus Never Gut-Shoot a Wampus Cover of Until Life Do Us Part Until Life Do Us Part Cover of Wedding Day Wedding Day
  3. 1954
    Cover of Backlash Backlash Cover of Breeder Reaction Breeder Reaction Cover of Eight Million Dollars From Mars! Eight Million Dollars From Mars! Cover of Forsyte's Retreat Forsyte's Retreat Cover of John's Other Practice John's Other Practice Cover of Mate in Two Moves Mate in Two Moves Cover of Tabby Tabby Cover of The Geisha Memory The Geisha Memory Cover of The Incredible Life-Form The Incredible Life-Form Cover of The Test Colony The Test Colony Cover of The Vegans Were Curious The Vegans Were Curious
  4. 1953
    Cover of Slay-Ride Slay-Ride Cover of The Water Eater The Water Eater Cover of Unbegotten Child Unbegotten Child

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFFirst ContactHard SFSpace OperaPsychic PowersDystopiaColonizationTime Travel

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseNelson S. BondRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweBryce WaltonFrank Belknap LongFrederik PohlGeorge O. Smith

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterCharles L. FontenayPoul AndersonFritz Leiber

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