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Rory Magill
A little-known voice from 1950s science fiction, this author published under the name Rory Magill and left behind a small but intriguing body of work. Best known for the story "The Last Gentleman," the writing mixes classic magazine-era suspense with end-of-the-world unease.
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The Last Gentleman
by Rory Magill
About the author
Writing as Rory Magill, Dorothea Magill Faulkner appears to have published a small number of science fiction stories and poems in the early 1950s. Sources connected with science fiction fandom also identify her as an active member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.
Her best-known story is "The Last Gentleman," first published in the January 1953 issue of If Worlds of Science Fiction. The story has continued to circulate through later reprints and public-domain editions, helping this brief piece of magazine-era science fiction find new readers long after its original publication.
Because so little biographical information is readily confirmed online, much of her life remains obscure. That scarcity gives her work a certain mystery: a reminder of how many pulp-era and magazine-era writers made memorable contributions even if only a few details about them survive.