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Leonard Rubin

Best remembered for the science-fiction story "Don't Look Now," this little-known writer left behind work that still catches readers with its sharp, speculative edge. The record is sparse, but his name turns up both in classic genre magazines and in serious writing about how science is evaluated.

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Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

by Leonard Rubin

About the author

Leonard Rubin is a little-documented author whose best-known fiction appears to be "Don't Look Now," a science-fiction story published in Galaxy magazine in April 1960. The story has remained visible through later reprints and online archives, which suggests a small but lasting place in mid-century magazine science fiction.

His name also appears on Peer Review in the National Science Foundation: Phase One of a Study (1978), coauthored with Stephen Cole and Jonathan R. Cole, and on a related article published by Scientific American. Because the available sources are limited, it is not fully clear from the public record how much of his career was devoted to fiction versus academic or research writing.

That mix makes Rubin an interesting figure: someone associated both with imaginative magazine-era science fiction and with thoughtful work on the institutions of modern science. Even with only a thin public trail, the surviving work gives a sense of a writer drawn to systems, ideas, and the consequences they have for everyday life.