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Howard L. Myers

1930–1971

A sharp, imaginative science fiction writer whose work appeared in leading magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, he is especially remembered for stories published as Verge Foray and for the novel Cloud Chamber.

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The Reluctant Weapon

The Reluctant Weapon

by Howard L. Myers

About the author

Howard L. Myers was an American science fiction author born in 1930 and died in 1971. Reliable reference sources agree that he became known for short fiction published in major genre magazines, often using the pen name Verge Foray.

He began publishing science fiction in the early 1950s, and later built a reputation through magazine work and a small but lasting body of fiction. His name is also linked with Cloud Chamber, the novel most often singled out in brief reference entries about his career.

Some sources also connect him with the pseudonym Penelope Ashe, but brief biographical references focus most consistently on his science fiction work, so that remains the clearest part of his literary profile.