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Lyn Venable
Best known for the story that became the classic Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last," this American science fiction writer made a lasting mark with only a small number of published tales. Her work blends irony, unease, and a sharp feel for human weakness.
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About the author
Writing as Lyn or Lynn Venable, Marilyn Venable was an American author of science fiction and fantasy whose best-known story, Time Enough at Last, first appeared in 1953. It later reached a much wider audience when it was adapted for The Twilight Zone in 1959, becoming one of the series' most remembered episodes.
Her published fiction appeared mainly in the 1950s in magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Weird Tales, Other Worlds, Mystic Magazine, Authentic Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Although her output was small, readers and genre reference works continue to single her out for memorable, unsettling ideas and a talent for darkly ironic endings.
Reference sources also note that she died in 2025. For many listeners, Venable remains a writer whose reputation rests not on a long shelf of books, but on a few stories that stayed vividly alive in the imagination.