Julian F. Grow

Julian F. Grow appears to have been a science fiction writer published in the early 1960s. Project Gutenberg and LibriVox both identify him as a contributor to Worlds of IF Science Fiction, and his work is now mainly remembered through a small group of digitized stories rather than a widely documented public biography.

The three works that are easiest to confirm are The Fastest Gun Dead (1961), Countdown (1963), and The Trouble with Truth (1963). Those stories show a writer comfortable with different flavors of speculative fiction: a science-fiction western, a Cold War countdown tale, and a story about truth, journalism, and public belief.

Very little reliable biographical detail about his life seems to be available online, so it is safest to think of him as one of the many mid-century magazine-era authors whose fiction outlasted the record of the person behind it. What remains is a compact but intriguing body of work from the classic magazine age of science fiction.