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Ralph Sholto
A little-known American science fiction writer from the early 1950s, remembered for sharp, pulpy stories with dystopian and crime-flavored twists. His work surfaced in magazines and later found new readers through public-domain archives and reprints.
2 Audiobooks
"And That's How It Was, Officer"
by Ralph Sholto
The Clean and Wholesome Land
by Ralph Sholto
About the author
Ralph Sholto appears to have been an American author active in the early 1950s. Reliable biographical detail is scarce, but surviving catalog records consistently connect him with short science fiction and adventure fiction from that period.
Two of his best-known works are And That's How It Was, Officer and The Clean and Wholesome Land. Records for 1952 magazine issues and later book listings also tie his fiction to classic pulp-era science fiction publishing, suggesting a writer working squarely in the magazine culture of mid-century genre fiction.
Because so little personal information is readily documented, Sholto is best known today through the stories themselves rather than a well-preserved public life. Project Gutenberg and LibriVox have helped keep that work available for modern readers, especially those interested in forgotten pulp and early speculative fiction.