Lynn Venable (writer)
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Marilyn "Lynn" Venable (born June 1927) is an American writer.


Early life

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"Give'm Hill: El Cerrito Woman Lends 'Twilight Zone' Inspiration"
''Mercury News'' (December 26, 2012).


Career

Venable's short story "Time Enough at Last" (''If Magazine'' 1953) was adapted for television as an episode of ''
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'' in 1959, starring
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. The story is frequently anthologized and discussed by scholars, who note that it was published in the same year as
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's ''
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'' and includes similar themes about reading and books. Other stories by Venable include "Homesick" (''Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine'' 1952), "Punishment Fit the Crime" (''Other Worlds'' 1953), "The Missing Room" (''Weird Tales'' 1953), "Doppelganger" (''Mystic Magazine'' 1954), "Parry's Paradox" (''Authentic Science Fiction'' 1955), and "Grove of the Unborn" (''Fantastic Universe'' 1957). "Someone once asked me, 'Why do you write these things? Why do you like to scare yourself?'" she told a reporter in 2012. "I said, 'I don't scare myself. I scare other people.'"


Personal life

Venable married at 18 and moved to
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. By 1988 she had moved again to
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."Dear Abby"
advice column, ''Northwest Herald'' (October 11, 1988): 13. via
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In 2012, she was living in a retirement community in
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.


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* * * * Episode 1 of the podcas
''Buxom Blondes with Rayguns''
features two 1952 stories by Lynn Venable, read by Hannah Wolfe (January 27, 2018). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Venable, Lynn American science fiction writers American women writers Date of birth missing (living people) Living people 1927 births 21st-century American women