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Clee Garson

A curious name from the pulp era, this wasn’t one writer but a shared pen name used for science-fiction stories in Ziff-Davis magazines. The name is tied most closely to David Wright O’Brien, with later stories also attributed to Paul W. Fairman and William P. McGivern.

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Direct Wire

Direct Wire

by Clee Garson

About the author

Clee Garson was a house name rather than a single identifiable author. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the byline was used in Ziff-Davis magazines, first by David Wright O’Brien in the 1940s and later revived for at least one story by Paul W. Fairman; the final story published under the name has been attributed to William P. McGivern.

That makes Clee Garson part of a classic pulp-magazine tradition: publishers sometimes used shared pseudonyms so stories by different writers would appear under one familiar name. Bibliographic sources such as ISFDB connect several early Clee Garson stories directly to O’Brien and note the uncertainty or reassignment of authorship for some later works.

For readers, the name stands as a small piece of science-fiction history — a reminder of how fast-moving, collaborative, and sometimes mysterious the magazine era could be.