F. Anton Reeds

Little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm online, but library-style records consistently identify him as F. Anton Reeds (1907–1970). He is best known for Forever Is Not So Long, a science-fiction story first published in Astounding Science-Fiction in May 1942 and now available through Project Gutenberg.

Bibliographic sources also show that he published at least some fiction under the name Anthony Riker. That small surviving record suggests a writer connected to the classic American magazine science-fiction world of the 1940s and 1950s.

Because confirmed personal details are scarce, his reputation today rests mainly on the stories themselves: imaginative, idea-driven fiction from the pulp era, with time travel and alternate possibilities at the center of the adventure.