author
Kirby Brooks
Known for the science-fiction story All That Goes Up, this writer is remembered today mainly through public-domain archives and reprints of vintage pulp-era work. The surviving record is slim, which adds a little mystery to the name.
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All That Goes Up
by Kirby Brooks
About the author
Kirby Brooks is credited as the author of All That Goes Up, a science-fiction story that has been preserved by Project Gutenberg and later reissued in modern reprint editions. The story is associated with mid-20th-century pulp-style science fiction, with a comic premise built around an anti-gravity invention and the chaos it causes at home.
Reliable biographical information about the person behind the name is hard to confirm from the sources available online. Because of that, it is safest to say that Kirby Brooks is known today more through the survival of the work itself than through a well-documented public life.
For readers who enjoy rediscovered speculative fiction, that can be part of the appeal: a short, imaginative story from an earlier era of science fiction, carrying the voice and playful ideas of its time.