author
Edward W. Ludwig
1920–1990
A mid-century science-fiction writer and editor, Edward W. Ludwig imagined strange futures, alien encounters, and societies shaped by fear and control. His stories combine classic adventure with inventive speculative ideas.
10 Audiobooks
The Aab
by Edward W. Ludwig
The First
by Edward W. Ludwig
To Save Earth
by Edward W. Ludwig
The Holes and John Smith
by Edward W. Ludwig
The Drivers
by Edward W. Ludwig
The Lonely Ones
by Edward W. Ludwig
Inheritance
by Edward W. Ludwig
Juvenile Delinquent
by Edward W. Ludwig
A Coffin for Jacob
by Edward W. Ludwig
Spacemen Die at Home
by Edward W. Ludwig
About the author
Edward William Ludwig was born in Tracy, California, on July 10, 1920, and died on May 1, 1990. An American editor and author, he wrote science fiction alongside nonfiction, especially works of history and biography.
Ludwig began publishing genre fiction in 1950 with “Inheritance,” and went on to write roughly twenty magazine stories. He also edited the amateur science-fiction magazine Fantastic Worlds during its early years.
His fiction includes the novel The Mask of Jon Culon (1970), a dystopian story about a man awakened from suspended animation, and the collection The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1983).