author
Allyn Donnelson
Known for a single mid-century science-fiction story, this elusive writer left behind a small but intriguing footprint in the genre. The surviving record is thin, which only adds to the mystery around the author.
1 Audiobook
Welcome to Paradise
by Allyn Donnelson
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author appears to survive online. Reliable catalog and reading sources consistently identify Allyn Donnelson as the author of "Welcome to Paradise," a science-fiction story published in the September 1954 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy.
Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, and other speculative-fiction bibliographies all point to that same story, and current public records available through those sources suggest it may be the only work that can be firmly attributed to Donnelson. Because so little else is documented, it is safest to remember the author as one of the many pulp-era magazine writers whose work outlasted the details of their personal history.
That makes Donnelson an interesting figure for curious listeners: a writer preserved less by biography than by the story itself, a small surviving spark from the rich world of 1950s science fiction magazines.