author
David Mason
1924–1974
A mid-century American fantasy and science-fiction writer, he published under the name David Mason while building a small but memorable body of adventurous short fiction and novels. His work ranged from magazine stories to sword-and-sorcery tales, including the Kavin books.
5 Audiobooks
Rockabye, Grady
by David Mason
The long question
by David Mason
Garrity's Annuities
by David Mason
Something Will Turn Up
by David Mason
The Fool
by David Mason
About the author
Writing as David Mason, Samuel Mason was an American author born in 1924 and died in 1974. He began publishing science fiction in the 1950s, with "Placebo" appearing in Infinity Science Fiction in 1955, and he went on to produce short stories as well as novels.
He is especially associated with fantasy adventure fiction. His first novel, Kavin's World (1969), was followed by The Return of Kavin (1972), and reference sources also connect him with a handful of other imaginative works that blend science-fiction and sword-and-sorcery elements.
Mason was married to fellow science-fiction writer Katherine MacLean from 1956 to 1962. Although he is not widely known today, his fiction still turns up in library catalogs, public-domain collections, and genre reference works, where he remains part of the rich magazine-and-paperback world of twentieth-century speculative fiction.