Fox B. Holden

Fox B. Holden (1923–1973) was an American journalist and science-fiction author born in Rochester, New York. He began publishing genre fiction with “Stop, Thief!” in 1945 and continued to place stories in magazines including If, Imagination, Planet Stories, Startling Stories, and Super Science Stories through 1956.

Holden’s fiction often combined space adventure with philosophical questions about humanity, technology, and the possibilities of the future. He was a part-time science-fiction writer who lived near Poughkeepsie, New York, and sometimes published under the byline Fox Holden.

His only known book-length work, The Time Armada, first appeared as a magazine serial in 1953 and was published in book form after his death, in 2010. Many of his short stories have also been preserved and reissued for new generations of science-fiction readers.