Fox B. Holden

Fox B. Holden was an American science fiction writer and journalist, born in Rochester, New York, in 1923 and dead by 1973. Reference sources on speculative fiction agree on those basic dates, and surviving notes about him suggest he also served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

He published stories in the pulp-magazine world of the 1940s and 1950s, building a body of work that included titles such as The Time Armada, The Women-Stealers of Thrayx, A Gift for Terra, and Beyond the X Ecliptic. Many of his stories have remained accessible through public-domain and archive projects, which has helped keep his name alive for modern readers of vintage SF.

Like a number of pulp-era writers, Holden is better documented through his fiction than through detailed personal biography. That makes him a slightly elusive figure today, but his stories still offer the brisk pacing, big concepts, and adventurous spirit that science fiction magazine readers loved in the postwar years.