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Known today for a single memorable science-fiction tale, this elusive writer left behind a sharp Cold War-era premise that still feels unsettling. The surviving record is thin, which only adds to the mystery around the name.

by Teddy Keller
Teddy Keller is credited with "The Plague," a science-fiction short story first published in Analog Science Fact & Fiction in February 1961. The story was later anthologized in Analog 1, edited by John W. Campbell Jr., and it has also been preserved through Project Gutenberg.
Reliable biographical details about the person behind the byline are scarce. The sources available during this search focus almost entirely on the story itself rather than on Keller's life, career, or background, so it is safest to describe Teddy Keller as an author known primarily—or perhaps only publicly—for this one published science-fiction work.
That small footprint gives Keller an unusual place in genre history: a writer remembered not for a long bibliography, but for one compact, high-concept story that has continued to circulate long after its original magazine appearance.