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Kirby Brooks

A mid-century science-fiction writer whose work mixed playful ideas with family chaos, leaving behind at least one memorable tale of anti-gravity gone wonderfully wrong.

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All That Goes Up

All That Goes Up

by Kirby Brooks

About the author

Kirby Brooks appears to be a pulp-era science-fiction author best known today for All That Goes Up. Project Gutenberg describes it as a science-fiction story originally published in Space Science Fiction in May 1953, with illustrations by H. R. Smith.

Reliable biographical details about Brooks are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Based on the surviving publication record, Brooks wrote light, humorous speculative fiction built around invention, domestic confusion, and the comic side of scientific ambition.

Because so little verified background information is readily available, Brooks is one of those authors remembered more through the story than through a well-documented public life. For readers who enjoy vintage sci-fi with a playful, old-magazine feel, that surviving work is the best introduction.