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Clark South

1915–1992

A pulp-era science fiction writer best remembered for The Time Mirror, a time-travel novel first published in Amazing Stories in 1942. Though little biographical information appears to have survived online, the work still offers a glimpse of imaginative magazine science fiction from the early 1940s.

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The Time Mirror

The Time Mirror

by Clark South

About the author

Very little confirmed biographical information about this author is easy to find online beyond standard catalog records. Project Gutenberg lists Clark South as 1915–1992 and identifies The Time Mirror as a novel produced from Amazing Stories in December 1942.

That surviving work places South in the world of mid-20th-century American science fiction magazines, where fast-moving plots and speculative ideas were central to the reading experience. The Time Mirror centers on time travel and alternate realities, themes that were especially popular in pulp science fiction of the period.

Because reliable sources are scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about South's life or career. Even so, the continued availability of The Time Mirror has helped keep the author's name alive for readers interested in classic genre fiction and the magazine era that shaped early science fiction.