author
M. I. Mayfield
Best known for the science-fiction story "On Handling the Data," this author has a small but intriguing public footprint that adds to the mystery. The surviving record points to a writer associated with classic mid-century speculative fiction.
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On Handling the Data
by M. I. Mayfield
About the author
Publicly available information on M. I. Mayfield is very limited. Project Gutenberg lists On Handling the Data and identifies it as a work by M. I. Mayfield, while Free Speculative Fiction Online notes that the story appeared in Analog (Astounding) in September 1959.
Bookseller and reader databases such as Goodreads and Simon & Schuster also have author pages for M. I. Mayfield, but they provide little confirmed biographical detail beyond the name and the connection to that story. Because reliable personal background information is scarce, it seems safest to remember Mayfield as a lightly documented author whose work survives mainly through classic science-fiction archives.
That sense of mystery may be part of the appeal: even with only a small trail of records, Mayfield remains linked to the imaginative magazine-fiction world of the 1950s.