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Stanley Gimble
A mid-century science-fiction writer remembered mainly for the short story Breakaway, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in December 1955. Very little biographical information is easy to confirm, which gives the work an intriguing, almost lost-pulp aura.
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Breakaway
by Stanley Gimble
About the author
Reliable public information on Stanley Gimble is sparse. The clearest confirmed detail is that he wrote Breakaway, a science-fiction short story published in Astounding Science Fiction in December 1955; that story is now available through Project Gutenberg and is also listed by LibriVox and other speculative-fiction bibliographies.
Because so little dependable biographical material appears in major reference sources, it is best to think of Gimble as one of the many lesser-known magazine-era writers whose work survives more visibly than their personal history. For readers who enjoy classic science fiction, that can be part of the appeal: a brief, vivid glimpse of the 1950s genre world, preserved in a single accessible story.
If more authoritative records surface, a fuller portrait may be possible. For now, the available evidence supports a modest but interesting place for Stanley Gimble among the many writers who contributed to the golden age magazine tradition.