Dawningsburgh
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About the author
Wallace West (1900–1980) was an American writer of science fiction and popular fiction. In the first half of the twentieth century he wrote space operas for pulp magazines, with works typically built around interstellar adventure and futuristic imagination, brisk in pace and carrying the characteristic flavor of popular science fiction of that era. Two of his works are held in this collection, Dawningsburgh and The End of Time, whose titles alone suggest his interest in time, the future, and exotic worlds. Public information about the details of his life is limited, and systematic discussion of him and his work among scholars and readers is not extensive, yet he belongs among the many writers of the pulp science fiction boom whose output and imagination sustained the literary ecology of the genre. His writing was closely tied to the tastes of contemporary popular-magazine readers and contributed to the popularity of space opera in the mid-twentieth century.
