author
Kirk Drussai
1919–1991
A little-known science-fiction collaborator, he is remembered today for co-authoring the 1955 story "The Twilight Years" with Garen Drussai. What survives of his record suggests a life on the edges of fandom, Fortean interests, and mid-century speculative fiction.
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The Twilight Years
by Kirk Drussai, Garen Drussai
About the author
Kirk Drussai, born in 1919 and dead in 1991, is a relatively obscure figure in science-fiction history. Bibliographic sources credit him with co-authoring "The Twilight Years", published in If in June 1955 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. Reference sources also identify "Kirk Drussai" as a name used by Gerald Larry Polenz.
The clearest surviving accounts connect him closely with writer Garen Drussai, his then-wife and collaborator. Researchers writing about the pair describe them as active in Fortean circles in the San Francisco Bay Area, and later records suggest that much of the known published work associated with his name comes from that shared creative world.
Because he left only a faint documentary trail, many personal details are hard to confirm with confidence. Still, his name remains attached to a memorable mid-century speculative tale, giving him a small but lasting place in pulp-era science fiction.