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Kirby Brooks

A pulp-era science fiction writer best known today for the short story All That Goes Up, which has been preserved and rereleased for modern readers. Little biographical information is easy to confirm, but the surviving work suggests a taste for playful ideas, domestic chaos, and old-school speculative fun.

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All That Goes Up

All That Goes Up

by Kirby Brooks

About the author

Kirby Brooks is a science fiction author associated with All That Goes Up, a mid-20th-century story that has been preserved by Project Gutenberg and later reprinted in modern editions. The story blends a comic family setup with an anti-gravity experiment, giving it the lively, imaginative feel of classic pulp-era sci-fi.

Reliable biographical details about Brooks are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safer to focus on the work itself: All That Goes Up has remained accessible to new readers through public-domain archives and anthology appearances, which suggests a small but lasting place in vintage science fiction history.

For listeners who enjoy older speculative fiction, Brooks offers a snapshot of a style that is light, inventive, and driven by one big idea pushed to amusing extremes.