author
Alan J. Ramm
A mid-century science fiction writer whose published work seems to be small in number but memorable in mood, he is now best known for fast-moving pulp stories that imagine danger on Mars and near the Sun. His fiction comes from the great magazine era of 1950s science fiction, when big ideas and brisk adventure often went hand in hand.
2 Audiobooks
Death Walks on Mars
by Alan J. Ramm
Trouble Near the Sun
by Alan J. Ramm
About the author
Alan J. Ramm was the pen name of Alan John Ramm, an American science fiction writer born in Buffalo, New York, on September 5, 1914. Reference sources on speculative fiction list him as the author of a small body of work and note that he died in November 1985.
His known fiction appeared in the 1950s, and modern readers most often encounter him through reprints and public-domain editions of stories such as Death Walks on Mars, Test Problem, and Trouble Near the Sun. Those titles give a good sense of his appeal: compact, imaginative adventures shaped by the classic pulp-science-fiction style.
Very little biographical detail about his life appears to be widely documented online today, which gives his work an air of mystery. What remains clear is that his stories still circulate because they capture a lively period in science fiction history, when even a short magazine tale could open a door to another world.