Al Sevcik

Born in 1930, Al Sevcik was an American science fiction author. Available library and catalog sources describe him as a writer of many sci-fi stories that appeared in magazines and anthologies, and publishers still list works such as Survival Tactics, Alien Offer, and A Matter of Magnitude.

Some sources identify him more fully as Albert E. Sevcik and give his birthplace as Līhuʻe, Hawaii. Descriptions for his later book Albert's Story say he grew up on a rural Hawaiian sugar plantation and, during World War II, was sent from Hawaii to relatives in Oklahoma because of school closures.

That mix of classic speculative fiction and lived experience makes his body of work especially interesting: he could write brisk, idea-driven science fiction, then turn to autobiographical material drawn from a very specific time and place in American life.