author
E. Mittleman
Best known today for a single science-fiction short story from 1960, this elusive writer left behind a neat little blend of gambling, telepathy, and magazine-era pulp energy. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.
1 Audiobook
The Non-Electronic Bug
by E. Mittleman
About the author
E. Mittleman is credited with the short story The Non-Electronic Bug, originally published in the July 1960 issue of Worlds of If Science Fiction. The story has remained available through later archives and public-domain ebook editions, and it is also listed by LibriVox and other speculative-fiction indexes.
Reliable biographical details about the author are hard to confirm. In the sources I found, E. Mittleman appears mainly through this one story rather than through a well-documented career, so it seems safest to describe the author as a little-known contributor to mid-century science fiction.
That obscurity is part of the appeal. The Non-Electronic Bug comes from the lively magazine world of classic pulp SF, mixing a card-cheating scheme with psychic talent and a brisk, entertaining premise.