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Teddy Keller

Best known for the short science-fiction piece "The Plague," this hard-to-pin-down writer also turns up in crime fiction and later Westerns. The small trail of published work gives him a quietly intriguing, pulp-era mystery.

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The Plague

The Plague

by Teddy Keller

About the author

Teddy Keller is a little-known American author whose surviving publication record suggests a career that crossed genres rather than staying in one lane. Confirmed works include the science-fiction story The Plague, which appeared in Analog Science Fact & Fiction in February 1961 and was later reprinted in the anthology Analog 1.

Other records connect Keller to earlier crime fiction and later Western writing. A story called Chase by Night appeared in Detective Tales in February 1953, and the Western novel Treason Trail was published in 1991. A contemporary review of Treason Trail also identified him as the author of the nonfiction book The '59ers: A Denver Diary.

Because reliable biographical information about Keller is scarce, even basic personal details are hard to confirm. What does come through clearly is a writer with a footprint in mid-century magazine fiction and a later return to print in book form, leaving behind a compact but varied body of work.