author
Morris Hershman
b. 1926
A versatile American storyteller, Morris Hershman moved easily between science fiction, mystery, gothic suspense, and western fiction. His best-known science-fiction novel, Shareworld—later reissued as The Crash of 2086—imagines a world where the stock market dominates society and catastrophe looms.
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Spacemen Never Die!
by Morris Hershman
About the author
Born in New York on January 31, 1926, Morris Hershman began publishing genre fiction with “The Happy Traitor” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1953. He went on to write science-fiction stories and novels alongside a large body of mystery, gothic, and western fiction.
Hershman published under several pseudonyms, including Evelyn Bond, Sara Roffman, Janet Templeton, Lionel Webb, and Jessica Wilcox. His science-fiction novel Shareworld appeared in 1972 and was later reissued as The Crash of 2086, a dystopian tale about a world economy controlled by the stock market. He died in New York in August 2016.