author
Alex Apostolides
1923–2005
An archaeologist, museum curator, journalist, and science-fiction writer, he brought a broad, adventurous life to the small but memorable body of fiction he published in the 1950s. Much of his work was written with Mark Clifton, with one notable solo story, "Sandy Had a Tiger."
2 Audiobooks
Progress Report
by Mark Clifton, Alex Apostolides
We're Civilized!
by Mark Clifton, Alex Apostolides
About the author
Born in San Francisco on November 29, 1923, Alex Apostolides was an American writer whose career reached well beyond fiction. Reliable reference sources describe him as an archaeologist, museum curator, journalist, and author, and note that his science-fiction work appeared mainly during the 1950s.
He began publishing science fiction in 1953, writing several stories with Mark Clifton, including early entries connected to Clifton's well-known series work. Reference bibliographies and the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction agree that nearly all of his fiction belongs to that decade, with "Sandy Had a Tiger" standing out as his solo story.
Apostolides died on September 27, 2005, in El Paso, Texas. Though his bibliography is small, it has endured through genre reference works and audiobook archives, where he is remembered as a writer who brought unusual real-world experience to classic mid-century science fiction.