author
Franklin Abel
A little-known science fiction writer remembered for a single, strange tale, this author left behind a compact but intriguing piece of 1950s magazine-era SF. The surviving record is sparse, which only adds to the curiosity around the work.
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Freudian Slip
by Franklin Abel
About the author
Franklin Abel is credited as the author of Freudian Slip, a science fiction story first published in Galaxy in May 1952 and later made available through Project Gutenberg. That story appears to be the main reason the name is still remembered today.
Reliable biographical details about the person behind the byline are hard to confirm. Publicly accessible sources identify Franklin Abel as a science fiction author, but they offer very little personal information beyond the publication of Freudian Slip.
For readers of vintage speculative fiction, that makes Abel one of those mysterious mid-century names who survive through a single surviving work: brief in output, but still part of the rich magazine history of the genre.