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An early science fiction writer whose work appeared in pulp magazines of the 1940s, he is now a fairly obscure figure with only a small surviving bibliography. His best-known title today is Mission, which has been preserved through Project Gutenberg.
John Hollis Mason was a science fiction writer associated with the pulp-magazine era of the early 1940s. Surviving catalog records show a very small body of work, and modern public information about his life appears to be limited.
The work most clearly linked to him today is Mission, which is listed by Project Gutenberg and other online book catalogs. That suggests his reputation now rests less on a large career than on a handful of genre stories that have remained accessible to later readers.
Because reliable biographical details are scarce, it is hard to say much with confidence about his personal background. What can be said is that he belongs to that broad group of early speculative-fiction writers whose published work outlasted the historical record around them.