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Gaston Derreaux
A little-known pulp-era writer whose surviving work points to a taste for big, mythic science fiction. Though biographical details are scarce, the stories linked to this name still carry the strange, earnest energy of late-1940s magazine fantasy.
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The Sun King
by Gaston Derreaux
About the author
Very little firmly documented biographical information about this author appears to survive online. Reliable catalog-style sources mainly identify Gaston Derreaux as a science fiction writer active in the late 1940s, and public-domain listings connect the name with The Sun King.
That story originally appeared in Amazing Stories in April 1949 and later entered the Project Gutenberg and LibriVox catalogs, which is why Derreaux's work is still discoverable today. The tale blends speculative fiction with mythic and historical elements, suggesting an author drawn to grand themes, invented worlds, and old religious imagery.
Because so few confirmed personal details are available, Derreaux is best remembered through the surviving fiction itself rather than through a well-documented life story. For readers of vintage genre writing, that mystery is part of the appeal: a nearly forgotten magazine-era byline, preserved by archives and still capable of surprising modern listeners.