Zero Hour
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Alexander Blade is a collective pseudonym used in mid-twentieth-century American science fiction publishing. It began as a personal pen name of the writer David Vern and was later shared by dozens of authors, including Edmond Hamilton, Howard Browne, and Robert Silverberg; it therefore does not refer to a single real person. Public information is limited, and its concrete biography is difficult to verify, but the works published under this name show that the pseudonym was mainly active in the field of popular science fiction magazines, with stories appearing in publications such as Amazing and Fantastic Adventures. Representative works include Zero Hour, The Brain, and The Plotters, whose themes revolve around science out of control, psychological abnormality, and conspiracy, in a style close to tightly plotted magazine short stories and novellas. As a shared pen name, it reflects the collective-pseudonym mode of production in American science fiction publishing at the time and offers clues for studying authorship attribution and editorial practice in popular science fiction of the period.
