author
Gaston Derreaux
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, active in the late 1940s and remembered today mainly through a handful of surviving stories. His work has a vivid, old-magazine sense of wonder, mixing far-future ideas with dramatic adventure.
1 Audiobook
The Sun King
by Gaston Derreaux
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author seems to survive online. The clearest reliable detail I found is that he was active as a science fiction writer in the late 1940s.
His name is attached to stories published in Amazing Stories, including The Sun King and The Flame Queen. The Sun King has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain catalogs, which is one reason his work is still discoverable for modern readers.
Because the available record is so sparse, it is safest to think of him as one of the many lesser-known magazine-era writers whose fiction outlasted the personal details of their life. What remains is the writing itself: energetic, imaginative, and firmly rooted in the flavor of classic mid-century pulp science fiction.