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Stanley Whiteside

A mid-century science fiction writer best remembered for The Sun-Death, a novel first published in Planet Stories in 1953. Very little biographical information is easy to confirm, which gives the work an extra air of pulp-era mystery.

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Information please

by Stanley Whiteside

The Sun-Death

The Sun-Death

by Stanley Whiteside

About the author

Stanley Whiteside appears to have been a mid-20th-century science fiction writer whose known work includes short fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, along with the novel The Sun-Death. Reliable bibliography sources list stories such as The Plane Equator (1943), Information Please (1946), Disposal (1952), and The Sun-Death (1953).

The Sun-Death is the work most clearly associated with his name today. Project Gutenberg notes that it originally appeared in Planet Stories in January 1953, helping place Whiteside within the lively magazine world of classic pulp science fiction.

Beyond those publication records, I could not confirm many personal details from reliable sources during this search, so it is best to treat him as a somewhat obscure figure whose fiction has outlasted the public record around him. No clearly verified portrait image was available from the sources I checked.