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Ron Cocking
A little-known science fiction writer from the late 1950s, best remembered for the story "Warning from the Stars," brought a sharp Cold War edge to classic magazine-era SF. His work blends alien contact, scientific suspense, and worries about humanity’s future in the atomic age.
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Warning from the Stars
by Ron Cocking
About the author
Very little biographical information about Ron Cocking appears to be widely documented, but library and public-domain sources agree that he was active as a science fiction writer in the late 1950s. He is generally listed as flourishing around 1959 rather than with confirmed birth and death dates.
He is best known for "Warning from the Stars," a science fiction story published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories in 1959 and later preserved through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain archives. The story reflects the era’s fascination with space, secret knowledge, and the fear of nuclear catastrophe.
That relative obscurity is part of what makes his work interesting today: it offers a snapshot of mid-century magazine science fiction beyond the most famous names. For listeners who enjoy rediscovering overlooked pulp-era authors, Ron Cocking represents a small but memorable corner of classic SF.