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Lawrence F. Willard

A little-known mid-century writer whose surviving work shows a playful sci-fi imagination, blending space exploration with a neat sense of irony. Best known today for the short story Rabbits Have Long Ears, he still feels like a fun rediscovery for readers of classic magazine science fiction.

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Rabbits Have Long Ears

Rabbits Have Long Ears

by Lawrence F. Willard

About the author

Lawrence F. Willard is a little-documented author best known for Rabbits Have Long Ears, a science-fiction short story that appeared in Worlds of If Science Fiction in August 1958. The story has remained available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep his name in circulation for modern readers.

Book listings also credit him with Pictorial Connecticut (1962), suggesting a range that went beyond magazine fiction. Reliable biographical details about his life and career are scarce, so much of his profile survives through these published works rather than through reference-book coverage.

That small footprint gives Willard a certain old-magazine mystery. What can be confirmed points to a writer with a light touch, a taste for clever premises, and a place in the rich world of mid-century popular reading.