author
Lee B. Holum
1931–2019
A chemist by training who also wrote science fiction, he is best remembered for concise, idea-driven stories and later novels that played with time, conflict, and alternate possibilities.
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The 3rd Party
by Lee B. Holum
About the author
Lee B. Holum was an American writer born on June 19, 1931, and he died on March 12, 2019. Sources about his life outside his fiction are limited, but bibliographic records confirm that he wrote science fiction and that his work appeared in print over many years.
He is associated with stories such as The 3rd Party, which was published in Worlds of If Science Fiction, and later books including Time Line Warriors and Timeline Pirates. An obituary also notes that he studied at Whitworth University and earned a master's degree in chemistry from New Mexico Highlands University, a background that fits the scientific thread running through his work.
Although he does not seem to have a large public author profile today, his writing still circulates through library, collector, and reprint catalogs, which suggests a small but lasting place in classic science fiction readership.