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D. Allen Morrissey
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, D. Allen Morrissey is remembered for a fast-moving space adventure full of mystery, suspended animation, and future-world danger. Only a small trace of the author survives today, which gives the work an extra sense of old magazine-era discovery.
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Captain Chaos
by D. Allen Morrissey
About the author
D. Allen Morrissey appears to be a largely obscure science fiction writer whose surviving public record is very slim. The clearest confirmed work is Captain Chaos, a story published in Planet Stories in November 1952 and now preserved through Project Gutenberg.
Because so little reliable biographical information is available, most attention today centers on the fiction itself rather than on the author’s life. Captain Chaos reflects the energetic style of mid-century pulp science fiction, mixing space travel, lost memory, and futuristic peril in a compact, adventurous tale.
For readers of vintage speculative fiction, Morrissey represents one of those fascinating authors who flicker briefly through the pulp magazines and then almost vanish from the historical record. That scarcity makes the surviving story feel like a small recovered artifact from the golden age of magazine science fiction.