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Vance Aandahl

b. 1942

Best known for sly, offbeat science fiction and fantasy short stories, this Colorado-born writer built a long magazine career with a playful, witty touch. Much of his work appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, where he began publishing while still very young.

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1,492,633 Marlon Brandos

1,492,633 Marlon Brandos

by Vance Aandahl

About the author

Vance Aandahl is an American author and teacher born in Colorado on September 30, 1942. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, he began publishing with "It's a Great Big Wonderful Universe" in the November 1960 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

He went on to publish at least 30 short stories, remaining active into the mid-1990s. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes that most of his fiction appeared in F&SF and describes his work as marked by "wry ingenuity," with several stories later anthologized.

Later on, he also wrote many film reviews for JeremySilman.com. Aandahl does not appear to have a major official author portrait readily available from the pages I could confirm, but his story "Marlon Brandos" is available through Project Gutenberg.