Robert J. Leman (1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American science fiction and
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short story author, most associated with ''
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. He was not published until he was 45, but had been a member of
First Fandom before that.
His best-known story is "
Window," which has often been reprinted and which was nominated for the
Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1980.
It was adapted for an episode of ''
Night Visions'', directed by and starring
Bill Pullman.
All of Leman's published stories—including the previously unpublished "How Dobbstown Was Saved", which was to have appeared in the
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anthology ''
The Last Dangerous Visions''—are collected in the volume ''Feesters in the Lake and Other Stories'' (Seattle:
Midnight House
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, 2002. ).
His story "Instructions" was reprinted in chapbook form in 2001 by
Tachyon Publications
Several of Leman's stories were translated, illustrated and published in the Polish monthly science fiction magazine ''
Fantastyka'' in 1990, with a short introductory note from the author.
Leman graduated from the
University of Illinois with a degree in political science after he returned from service in Europe, as a field artillery officer, during World War II.
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1922 births
2006 deaths
American horror writers
American science fiction writers
American short story writers
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
American male short story writers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
Chapbook writers
United States Army officers
20th-century American male writers