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Arnold Marmor

1927–1978

Best known for brisk science-fiction stories and paperback adventure fiction, this mid-century American writer moved easily between pulps, spy novels, and more offbeat corners of popular publishing. His work captures the fast, restless energy of 1950s and 1960s genre fiction.

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Not in the Script

Not in the Script

by Arnold Marmor

About the author

Born in New York City on March 29, 1927, Arnold Marmor was an American author whose fiction appeared during the 1950s and 1960s. Catalog and bibliography sources link him with science fiction in particular, and public-domain listings preserve several of his shorter works, including Marty the Martian, Birthday Present, and The Scandalized Martians.

He also wrote in other popular genres. LibriVox notes that he contributed a couple of books to the long-running Nick Carter: Killmaster series, which fits the broader picture of a writer comfortable working across science fiction, paperback adventure, and commercial series fiction.

Some sources disagree about his death year: library-style listings identify him as 1927–1978, while other bibliography sources give October 2, 1988. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say that he was a mid-20th-century American genre writer whose surviving bibliography shows a varied and energetic publishing career.