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Lyn Venable
Best remembered for the classic short story "Time Enough at Last," this American science fiction writer brought a sharp sense of irony to mid-century magazine fiction. Writing as Lyn Venable, she left a lasting mark on the genre with a small but memorable body of work.
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About the author
Lyn Venable, also credited as Marilyn A. Venable or Lynn Venable, was an American science fiction writer associated with the magazine era of the 1950s. Reference sources identify her as being born around 1927, and she is chiefly remembered for short fiction rather than novels.
Her most famous story is "Time Enough at Last," first published in If in 1953. The story later reached a much wider audience when it was adapted for The Twilight Zone in 1959, helping secure her place in science fiction history.
Although her published output appears to have been relatively small, her work has remained visible through anthologies, bibliographies, and genre reference sites. That lasting reputation says a lot about how memorable her best-known fiction has been to generations of readers.