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Sol Boren

A mid-century science fiction writer remembered today for the witty robot tale Your Servant, Sir, first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction in 1956. Little biographical information appears to be widely available, which gives the work an extra air of pulp-era mystery.

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Your Servant, Sir

Your Servant, Sir

by Sol Boren

About the author

Sol Boren was an American science fiction writer whose best-known surviving work is Your Servant, Sir. That story originally appeared in the October 1956 issue of If Worlds of Science Fiction and has since been preserved through Project Gutenberg and other reprint platforms, helping modern readers rediscover it.

Publicly available information about Boren is sparse. Search results and catalog-style sources consistently connect the name with Your Servant, Sir, but they do not provide a fuller literary biography, bibliography, or widely documented career history. Because of that, it seems safest to remember Boren as one of the many magazine-era writers whose work outlived the paperbacks and pulps that first carried it.

A memorial listing indexed online identifies Sol Boren as having been born on January 4, 1926, and died on March 16, 1999. Beyond that, the record is thin, so his reputation today rests mainly on the charm of a single classic science fiction story and the glimpse it offers into 1950s robot fiction.