Clark South

Clark South was a pen name linked in library authority records to Dwight V. Swain (1915–1992). Under that byline, he is credited with The Time Mirror, a science-fiction story that appeared in Amazing Stories in December 1942 and has since been preserved by Project Gutenberg.

Very little biographical information about the Clark South byline is readily documented online, so the safest picture is a simple one: a mid-20th-century genre author associated with pulp-era speculative fiction, remembered today mainly through that surviving magazine work. For listeners who enjoy classic science fiction, the appeal is in the story’s period imagination and its glimpse into the magazine world of the 1940s.