Mari Wolf

Born on August 27, 1926, Mari Wolf was an American science fiction writer, fan, and magazine columnist associated with the energetic postwar SF scene in Los Angeles. She published several short stories in the early 1950s, many of them in If, and later wrote the fan-focused column Fandora’s Box for Imagination.

She has drawn lasting interest for her story "Robots of the World! Arise!", which is often credited with one of the earliest known uses of the word "droid" for a robot. Reference sources also note that she worked in the rocket industry, a detail that gives her career an especially vivid connection to the Space Age world around her.

Although her fiction career was relatively brief, her work still stands out for its place in early science fiction magazine culture. Her writing reflects a moment when fandom, pulp magazines, and real-world technological ambition were all closely intertwined.