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Rory Magill
Best known for the bleak science-fiction tale The Last Gentleman, this little-known mid-century writer published under the pen name Rory Magill. Behind that name was Dorothea Magill Faulkner, a Los Angeles science-fiction fan whose small body of work still turns up in classic pulp and public-domain collections.
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The Last Gentleman
by Rory Magill
About the author
Rory Magill was the pen name of Dorothea Magill Faulkner, an American science-fiction fan and writer. Reference sources identify Faulkner as her legal name and list February 4, 1889 as her birth date, with her death in July 1974.
She was active in Los Angeles fandom and is remembered as a member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and the Outlander Society. Fan-history sources say she sold only a small number of professional stories under the Rory Magill name, which helps explain why she remains an obscure figure today.
Her best-known work is The Last Gentleman, a somber science-fiction story that has stayed in circulation through public-domain archives such as Project Gutenberg. That afterlife has given modern listeners and readers a second chance to discover a writer whose output was modest, but whose atmosphere and ideas still feel distinctly pulp-era and haunting.