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Lowell Stone
A little-known science-fiction writer whose surviving trail points to a single sharp, memorable story from the magazine era. His work taps into Cold War fears while keeping its focus on duty, family, and the human cost of catastrophe.
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A Soldier's Home Is Battle
by Lowell Stone
About the author
Lowell Stone is a notably obscure author in the record available online. The clearest confirmed credit is "A Soldier's Home Is Battle," a science-fiction story published in Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy in March 1954 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
That story imagines atomic devastation through the eyes of a soldier torn between military duty and the need to get home to his family. Even from this one surviving piece, Stone comes across as a writer interested less in gadgetry than in pressure, fear, and the emotional fallout of war.
Because so little dependable biographical information appears to be publicly available, it is hard to say much more about his life with confidence. What remains is a small but intriguing footprint: one mid-century magazine story that still speaks clearly from the anxious early years of the atomic age.