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Robert Donald Locke

A mid-20th-century science fiction writer, he published imaginative short fiction in magazines such as Analog and Thrilling Wonder Stories, sometimes using the pseudonym Roger Arcot. His work ranges from parallel-world adventures to classic pulp-era speculation.

4 Audiobooks

Milk Run

Milk Run

by Robert Donald Locke

Deepfreeze

Deepfreeze

by Robert Donald Locke

Next Door, Next World

Next Door, Next World

by Robert Donald Locke

G-r-r-r...!

G-r-r-r...!

by Robert Donald Locke

About the author

Robert Donald Locke was an American science fiction author best known for short stories published in the 1950s and early 1960s. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction identifies Roger Arcot as his pseudonym and lists notable works including The Timeless Man and the novelette Next Door, Next World.

Project Gutenberg has collected a number of his stories, which shows the range of his magazine-era fiction and helps explain why he still turns up in conversations about classic pulp and digest science fiction. His stories often explore big speculative ideas in a direct, accessible style.

Reliable sources available here provide only limited personal biographical detail, so this overview focuses on his writing career rather than unconfirmed facts about his life.