The December 2nd issue of Ansible reports that author and editor Howard Browne died on October 28th.
Browne was managing editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures in the 1940s and their editor in the 1950s. Principally a mystery writer, he contributed short stories and serials to the SF magazines under various pseudonyms, including Alexander Blade.
A science-fantasy-noir novel inspired by the Nebula-nominated “Tower of Mud and Straw.” Towers, politics, alternate worlds. Kirkus called it “mind-expanding” in a starred review; Daily Mail, “a towering achievement and a genre-busting tour de force.”
Steven D. Brewer teaches scientific writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He writes steampunky romantasy and fluffy military space opera, often with an LGBTQIA+ focus. Brewer lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his extended family.
