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Neil Goble

A U.S. Air Force officer turned technical writer, he also made a small but memorable mark in science fiction. His work ranges from magazine fiction to a thoughtful early study of Isaac Asimov.

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Master of None

Master of None

by Neil Goble

About the author

Born in Oklahoma City in 1933, Neil Goble — listed in some bibliographies as Lloyd Neil Goble — built a career that blended military service, technical writing, and imaginative fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes him as a U.S. Air Force officer and technical author as well as a writer of genre work.

He began publishing science fiction with the story Master of None in Analog in February 1962. His best-known fiction title appears to be Condition Green: Tokyo (1967), described by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as his one science-fiction novel.

Goble is also remembered for Asimov Analyzed (1972), an early book-length study of Isaac Asimov. Though his published fiction output seems to have been modest, his work still draws interest from science-fiction reference sources and collectors. He died in 1997.