Walton, Bryce
Entry updated 19 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1918-1988) US author, prolific under his own name and others in several genres, his Television work including scripts for Captain Video. He wrote some sf as Paul Franklin, Kenneth O'Hara and Dave Sands, though his first story, "The Ultimate World" for Planet Stories in Winter 1945, was as Walton. He contributed actively to the magazines until about 1960, less frequently thereafter. Sons of the Ocean Deeps (1952) faces a failed space cadet with the chance to mature Under the Sea, deep in the Pacific benthos, which he grippingly does, helping to save North America from Disaster en passant. [JC]
Bryce Marvis Walton
born Blythedale, Missouri: 31 May 1918
died Van Nuys, California: 5 February 1988
works
- Sons of the Ocean Deeps (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The John C Winston Company, 1952) [hb/Paul Orban]
- Martian Nightmare (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2017) [dos: first appeared January 1951 Planet Stories: pb/Ed Moritz]
- Design for Doomsday (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2018) [dos: first appeared Spring 1948 Planet Stories: pb/Ed Emshwiller]
collections
- "Dark of the Moon" and Other Tales (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) [coll: in the publisher's Masters of Science Fiction series: pb/Alex Schomburg]
- "The Highest Mountain" and Other Tales (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2018) [coll: in the publisher's Masters of Science Fiction series: pb/Alex Schomburg]
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