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C. Shook
Best known for a single science-fiction story from the pulp-magazine era, this elusive writer left behind a compact but memorable piece of imaginative adventure. Very little biographical information survives, which only adds to the mystery around the name on the cover.
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The band played on
by C. Shook
About the author
C. Shook is a little-known author associated with Astonishing Stories, the pulp science-fiction magazine where "The Band Played On" first appeared in June 1942.
That story has had an afterlife well beyond its original magazine publication. It is listed by Project Gutenberg and LibriVox, which has helped keep the work available to modern readers and listeners.
Reliable biographical details about the person behind the name are scarce, so it is safest to view C. Shook as one of the many hard-to-trace contributors who gave mid-20th-century magazine fiction its energy and variety. For readers who enjoy rediscovering forgotten pulp-era voices, that obscurity is part of the appeal.