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Wallace Macfarlane
1918–1999
An American science-fiction writer who mostly published as W. Macfarlane, he built his reputation on short stories that appeared across the genre’s magazine era. Though little biographical detail is widely documented, his work remained visible through anthologies and later audio and reprint editions.
1 Audiobook
Dead End
by Wallace Macfarlane
About the author
Wallace M. Macfarlane was born in Washington, D.C., on September 6, 1918, and died on January 9, 1999. Reference sources for speculative fiction list him as an American writer who usually published under the shorter byline W. Macfarlane.
He is best known for science-fiction short fiction rather than novels. His stories appeared in mid-20th-century genre publications, and bibliographic records show work published from the late 1940s into the 1970s. Titles associated with him include Dead End and later anthology appearances such as The 1981 Annual World's Best SF.
Very little personal background seems to be widely available online, which gives his career a slightly mysterious edge. What does come through clearly is his place in magazine-era science fiction: a writer of concise, idea-driven stories whose work continued to circulate through anthologies, library catalogs, and public-domain reading projects.