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Kirk Drussai
1919–1991
A little-known mid-century science fiction writer, remembered for a sharp, thoughtful story about aging, marriage, and a youth-obsessed future. His work survives mainly through The Twilight Years, a collaboration that still feels surprisingly modern in its concerns.
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The Twilight Years
by Kirk Drussai, Garen Drussai
About the author
Kirk Drussai was an American science fiction writer born in 1919 and died in 1991. Although not a prolific or widely known figure, he is still noted in library and speculative-fiction reference sources for The Twilight Years, a story he wrote with Garen Drussai and which appeared in If: Worlds of Science Fiction in 1955.
That story is the main reason readers still encounter his name today. It blends social satire with speculative fiction, focusing on old age, youth culture, and the pressures placed on a married couple in a changing society.
Some bibliographic sources also identify Kirk Drussai as a pen name connected to Gerald Larry Polenz, but the available records are limited, so that detail should be treated cautiously. What can be said with confidence is that his surviving reputation rests on a small but memorable contribution to 1950s science fiction.