Irving W. Lande

Irving W. Lande appears to have been a mid-20th-century science fiction writer whose surviving bibliography is quite small, which is part of why he remains a little mysterious today. The clearest confirmed title is Slingshot, a story published in Astounding Science Fiction in November 1955 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

He is also credited, with Frank Belknap Long, for Operation: Square Peg, a complete novel published in Satellite Science Fiction in April 1957. Those credits place him within the classic magazine era of American science fiction, when many authors built their reputations through short fiction and serialized adventures rather than long book careers.

Reliable biographical detail beyond those publications is hard to confirm from the sources I found, so it is safest to remember him as a lesser-known pulp-era SF author whose work still circulates through reprints and digital archives.