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Lowell Stone

A little-known mid-century science-fiction writer, he is remembered today for a Cold War-era story that imagines nuclear attack, survival, and the strain war places on ordinary people. His work has a brisk pulp-magazine energy and a strong sense of human stakes.

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About the author

Very little biographical information about Lowell Stone could be confirmed from reliable sources found during this search. What is clear is that he wrote science fiction in the 1950s and is credited as the author of A Soldier's Home Is Battle.

That story originally appeared in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in March 1954, placing Stone among the many writers who published during the tense early atomic age. The tale centers on the aftermath of nuclear war and follows a soldier trying to hold on to duty, family, and hope under extreme pressure.

The story has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg, which notes that no evidence of a renewed U.S. copyright was found for that publication. Even if Lowell Stone himself remains obscure, the survival of this work gives modern listeners a snapshot of 1950s speculative fiction at its most anxious and human.