author
Gerry Maddren
A mid-century writer remembered today mainly for the science-fiction tale The Alternate Plan, with a small body of work that has stayed in circulation through public-domain and library catalogs.
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The Alternate Plan
by Gerry Maddren
About the author
Gerry Maddren is a little-documented author whose name is most often connected with The Alternate Plan, a science-fiction short story first published in the late 1950s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. Catalog and bookseller records also link the name to other titles, including The Case of the Johannisberg Riesling.
Reliable biographical details about Maddren are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it seems best to treat the author as an obscure figure rather than fill in gaps with guesswork. What does come through clearly is a lasting niche presence: Maddren's work continues to surface in classic-SF archives, library records, and reader databases, which suggests an author whose stories still find curious readers long after their original publication.