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Sylvia Jacobs
A little-known science fiction writer from the magazine era, she published sharp, imaginative stories in leading genre magazines across nearly two decades. Her work includes early 1950s pieces like "A Stitch in Time" and later fiction such as "Slave to Man," showing a career that stretched from 1951 to 1969.
3 Audiobooks
Young Man from Elsewhen
by Sylvia Jacobs
Time Payment
by Sylvia Jacobs
The Pilot and the Bushman
by Sylvia Jacobs
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about Sylvia Jacobs appears to be publicly available, but her fiction left a small, intriguing mark on mid-20th-century science fiction. Public domain and bibliographic sources confirm that she published stories under her own name, and that some of her work has remained accessible to later readers.
Her known magazine career begins with "A Stitch in Time" in Astounding Science Fiction in April 1951. She also published "The Pilot and the Bushman" in Galaxy in August 1951, a story that has since circulated through public-domain editions, helping keep her name in view for genre readers.
Evidence from magazine listings shows that her publishing span reached at least to "Slave to Man" in the April 1969 issue of Galaxy. Even with only a small body of confirmed work and few personal details surviving online, Sylvia Jacobs stands out as one of the lesser-known women who contributed to classic science fiction magazines during that period.