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R. W. Major

Best known for the short science fiction story Monument, this elusive writer appeared in the pages of Worlds of If Science Fiction during the magazine's classic mid-century run. Very little biographical information seems to survive, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.

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Monument

Monument

by R. W. Major

About the author

R. W. Major is a little-documented science fiction author associated with Worlds of If Science Fiction. The clearest confirmed record is the short story Monument, which appeared in the March 1960 issue of the magazine and has since been preserved by Project Gutenberg and other public-domain archives.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, not much can be said with confidence about Major's life beyond that magazine appearance and later public-domain circulation of the story. LibriVox also lists R. W. Major as a contributor to Worlds of IF Science Fiction, which supports the picture of a writer whose published legacy is tied to classic pulp-era SF.

For listeners who enjoy rediscovering forgotten voices from vintage science fiction, Major is an interesting example: a writer known today less through a large body of surviving work than through one memorable magazine-era story that has remained available to new readers.