Robert Donald Locke

Robert Donald Locke was an American science fiction writer who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. In 1952 he published his first science fiction story, "Demotion," in Astounding Science Fiction, and went on to publish about twelve short stories in magazines such as Imagination and Amazing Stories through 1961. In 1956 he released the novel The Immortal Ones under the pen name Roger Arcot. Works including Next Door, Next World, G-r-r-r...!, and Deepfreeze were later made available as ebooks by Project Gutenberg. Because public information is limited, details of his life and the full scope of his work remain to be further explored, and existing accounts center mainly on the short stories and novel mentioned above.