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Max Tadlock
Best known for the science-fiction story Cause of Death, this mid-century writer remains a bit mysterious today. What survives points to a brief publishing footprint and a knack for big, unsettling ideas.
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Cause of Death
by Max Tadlock
About the author
Max Tadlock is a little-known author whose name is most closely tied to Cause of Death, a science-fiction story first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in November 1955 and now available through Project Gutenberg.
Reliable public information about Tadlock is surprisingly sparse, and standard book-reference sources currently surface only that confirmed work. That makes him one of those intriguing pulp-era writers who left behind a memorable story but only a faint biographical trail.
Because so little has been firmly documented in the sources reviewed here, it is safest to remember Tadlock as a mid-20th-century speculative-fiction author whose surviving reputation rests on a single eerie, idea-driven tale rather than on a large body of published work.