Ralph William Slone (1914-1959) was a

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writer who used the pseudonym Ralph Williams. He contributed to the magazine ''

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''. He was born in 1914 in Illinois and died in 1959 in Alaska. He died in a fishing accident, according to a letter written by his son.

Selected works

His most notable work, the novelette "

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," was a finalist for the

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in 1960. The story concerns a protagonist Ed Brown in Alaska as he discovers an alien civilization among wooded mountains. Another novelette, of 1958, "Business As Usual During Alterations," has been cited many times. It describes economics changed by experimentation.

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* 1914 births 1959 deaths American science fiction writers American male short story writers 20th-century American male writers {{US-author-stub