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F. Anton Reeds
1907–1970
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, he is remembered today for imaginative time-travel stories published in mid-century genre magazines. His best-known work, Forever Is Not So Long, blends romance, invention, and a jump into the near future.
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Forever is Not So Long
by F. Anton Reeds
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm today, which gives his work an air of mystery. Reliable catalog and bibliography records identify him as F. Anton Reeds (1907–1970), and Project Gutenberg lists Anthony Riker as an alias.
Reeds is best known for Forever Is Not So Long, a science-fiction story published in Astounding Science-Fiction in May 1942 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. Bibliographic indexes also connect him with other magazine stories from the 1950s, including work published under the Anthony Riker name.
What stands out most is the kind of fiction he wrote: brisk, idea-driven stories from the classic pulp tradition, often centered on time travel and speculative twists. Even with so little personal history available, his surviving stories offer a clear glimpse of the magazine science fiction world of his era.