author
Lucius Daniel
Best remembered for brisk, idea-driven science fiction, this mid-20th-century writer published stories that appeared in the 1950s and still circulate through public-domain and audio editions today.
1 Audiobook
Martians Never Die
by Lucius Daniel
About the author
Lucius Daniel is known as a science fiction author whose work appeared in the mid-1950s. Reliable catalog-style sources connected with public-domain and audiobook archives identify him as active in that period, and readers today most often encounter him through short fiction rather than a long list of books.
One of his best-known stories is Martians Never Die, and archives such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox preserve that work for modern audiences. Listings on reader and bookseller databases also connect his name with stories like Up for Renewal, suggesting a career centered on magazine-era speculative fiction.
Very little biographical detail about his personal life is easy to confirm from dependable sources, which is not unusual for pulp-era authors with a small surviving bibliography. What remains clear is his place in classic science fiction's magazine tradition: short, imaginative stories that continue to find new listeners and readers long after their original publication.