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Clyde Brown

Known today mainly for the quirky science-fiction story First Man, this elusive writer left behind a small but memorable slice of mid-century pulp imagination. Very little biographical information is easy to confirm, which only adds to the mystery around the name.

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First Man

First Man

by Clyde Brown

About the author

Clyde Brown is a little-documented author associated with First Man, a humorous science-fiction story that Project Gutenberg identifies as having appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in April 1958. The story follows an accidental trip to the Moon and has the light, brisk energy of classic magazine-era SF.

Reliable biographical details about Brown are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Modern book and publisher listings connect the name with First Man and a handful of later reprints or anthology appearances, but they do not provide a clear life story, dates, or a fuller bibliography that can be verified with confidence.

For listeners, that means the work matters more than the legend: Brown stands as one of those hard-to-pin-down writers whose surviving fiction still carries the charm of the 1950s science-fiction magazines—playful, fast-moving, and full of big ideas delivered with a wink.