author
Mark Clutter
A little-known science fiction writer whose surviving work points to the lively world of 1950s pulp magazines. Best known today for the space adventure "Amour, Amour, Dear Planet!", the name remains something of a mystery, which only adds to the story's vintage charm.
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Amour, Amour, Dear Planet!
by Mark Clutter
About the author
Very little verified biographical information is readily available about Mark Clutter. What can be confirmed is that he wrote science fiction, and that his story "Amour, Amour, Dear Planet!" appeared in the March 1953 issue of Planet Stories, a well-known pulp magazine that published imaginative, fast-moving speculative fiction.
That story has survived through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep Clutter's work accessible to modern readers. Because reliable sources appear to preserve the fiction more clearly than the author's life, many personal details about Clutter remain uncertain.
Even so, the work itself places him in the colorful mid-century tradition of magazine science fiction: bold premises, planetary settings, and a sense of adventure aimed at readers who wanted their stories strange, swift, and entertaining.