Export Commodity By Irving Cox Jr.
Very often we find it hard to learn much about the authors on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. In many cases they had a short career and disappeared as quickly as they appeared as if they were abducted by aliens never to be seen again.
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The author of today’s story wrote 54 short sci-fi stories from 1951 to 1965, starting with Hell’s Pavement in Astounding Science Fiction and ending with Way Station in If Worlds of Science Fiction.
We know he was born in Pennsylvania on the 24th of May 1917 and died on the 13th of February 2001 at the age of 83. He was born Irving England Cox, Jr. and used several slight variations of his given name, Irving B. Cox Jr., Irving Cox and the one he used for today’s short sci-fi story Irving Cox Jr. That’s pretty much all we know about him except for a reference to an Irving E. Cox Jr in the 1940 Census. He lived in Sacramento California at the time with his father Irving, mother Adelle and a younger sister and brother.
The story you are about to hear was in the middle of his career and is his first offering of 1955. From Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in July 1955, Export Commodity by Irving Cox Jr...
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