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Alfred E. Maxwell

A little-known science fiction writer from the pulp-magazine era, remembered today for the inventive short story "Alpha Say, Beta Do." The story first appeared in Planet Stories in 1950 and later found new life through Project Gutenberg.

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Alpha Say, Beta Do

Alpha Say, Beta Do

by Alfred E. Maxwell

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable web sources. What is clear is that Alfred E. Maxwell is credited with the science fiction short story Alpha Say, Beta Do, which appeared in the Summer 1950 issue of Planet Stories.

That story has remained his best-documented work in modern catalogs. Project Gutenberg lists Alpha Say, Beta Do under his name, and its author page currently shows just that one title, suggesting that surviving records for Maxwell are quite sparse.

Because dependable biographical sources are limited, it is safest to think of him as one of the many lightly documented writers who published during the mid-century pulp era and are now known mainly through the magazines and archives that preserved their fiction.