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Chester Cohen
A little-known voice from science fiction’s early magazine era, Chester Cohen brought strange visitors, uncanny crowds, and playful twists to short fiction. His stories offer a compact glimpse into the imaginative world of 1950s pulp publishing.
2 Audiobooks
Round-Up Time
by Chester Cohen
Forbidden flight
by Chester Cohen
About the author
Chester Cohen was an American science-fiction writer and New York fan associated with the Futurian circle. His fiction appeared in several 1950s magazines, including Rocket Stories, where “Flower Girl” was published in September 1953, and Infinity Science Fiction, which featured “Round-Up Time” in June 1956.
Cohen is best known today for “Round-Up Time,” a surreal story about a beggar in Manhattan who encounters a mysterious performer and a crowd drawn into an extraordinary spectacle. The story was later digitized by Project Gutenberg, alongside another Cohen work, “Forbidden Flight.” Records also connect Cohen with fellow science-fiction figure Laura Goforth, whom he married, and with occasional artwork and collaborations in the field.