Robert Donald Locke

Robert Donald Locke was a Canadian-born writer of science fiction and other popular fiction, active mainly in the 1950s. Reliable catalog and reference sources connect him with the pseudonym Roger Arcot, and his work remains available through public-domain and archival listings.

He is especially associated with short, energetic science-fiction stories such as Deepfreeze and G-r-r-r...!, along with at least one crime novel, A Taste of Brass. Reference sources place his birth in Fort Frances, Ontario, on August 29, 1926, and his death in Maplewood, Minnesota, on January 3, 2003.

Although not a household name, he has stayed visible through genre reference works, library catalogs, and digital archives. That gives his writing a nice afterlife for listeners who enjoy rediscovering mid-century pulp fiction and lesser-known voices from the magazine era.