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Tom Pace
1929–2008
A mid-20th-century American pulp writer, he is remembered for brisk, idea-driven science fiction and mystery stories, including work featuring south Florida police chief Ben Garden.
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Death Star
by Tom Pace
Example
by Tom Pace
About the author
Tom Pace (1929–2008) was an American writer from Florida who published science fiction and mystery fiction. The sources available here agree that he also wrote novels, and one bibliographic page credits him as the creator of Ben Garden, a chief of police in south Florida.
His short fiction appeared in the pulp-magazine era, and at least one of his stories, Example, has been preserved by Project Gutenberg and described there as a mid-20th-century science fiction narrative. That gives a good sense of his place in genre history: a working storyteller from the magazine age whose fiction leaned toward fast-moving plots and speculative ideas.
Reliable biographical detail on his life appears to be limited online, so a full personal profile is hard to confirm. What does come through clearly is his connection to classic popular fiction, especially science fiction, and the fact that readers can still find his work through public-domain and volunteer archives.