E. G. Von Wald

E. G. Von Wald is a science fiction author best known today through reprints and public-domain editions of short stories such as World Without War, Shock Absorber, and Fair and Warmer.

Available catalog and archive records show that Von Wald published short fiction in the 1950s and 1960s, including work that appeared in If: Worlds of Science Fiction and Galaxy. Reliable biographical details about the person behind the byline are scarce, so most surviving information centers on the stories themselves rather than on a documented life history.

That relative mystery is part of the appeal: Von Wald’s work comes out of the magazine era of science fiction, when writers could build an entire imaginative world in just a few pages. For listeners who enjoy rediscovering overlooked pulp and digest-era authors, these stories offer a glimpse of that inventive period.