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Edward Peattie
Best known for the science-fiction story "The Laboratorians," this little-documented writer appears to have come to fiction from a very different professional life. The surviving record suggests a civil engineer who published only a small number of speculative stories in the 1950s.
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The Laboratorians
by Edward Peattie
About the author
Edward Peattie is an elusive figure in genre history, and reliable biographical details are scarce. The clearest published summary I could confirm describes him as Edward Cahill Peattie (February 6, 1883 – August 31, 1963) and identifies him as a civil engineer who wrote two science-fiction stories in the mid-1950s.
He is chiefly associated with "The Laboratorians," a story published in Worlds of If in May 1955 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. That work has kept his name in circulation among readers of vintage science fiction, even though he does not seem to have left behind a large or well-documented literary career.
Because so little dependable information is readily available, it is safest to remember him as a minor but intriguing mid-century science-fiction author whose small body of work reflects the magazine-fiction world of the 1950s.