author
Floyd C. Gale
1918–1997
A sharp-eyed science fiction reviewer and writer, this mid-century genre figure helped shape readers’ tastes through years of book criticism in Galaxy. He also wrote stories of his own, sometimes under another pen name and sometimes in collaboration with his better-known brother, H. L. Gold.
1 Audiobook
Someone to watch over me
by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold, Floyd C. Gale
About the author
Writing as Floyd C. Gale, Floyd Clifford Gold was an American science fiction critic and author born in 1918 and died in 1997. He is best remembered for the "Galaxy's Five Star Shelf" review column in Galaxy Science Fiction, where he reviewed books from 1955 to 1963.
He began publishing science fiction in the early 1940s, including "Treachery on Planetoid 41," and also wrote fiction under the name Christopher Grimm. Reference sources on the field note that he sometimes collaborated with his brother, H. L. Gold, the influential editor of Galaxy.
Though not as famous as some of the writers he reviewed, he remains an interesting part of science fiction magazine history: a working critic, reviewer, and storyteller active during one of the genre’s most lively magazine eras.