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Forgotten Authors: Rosel George Brown

Forgotten Authors: Rosel George Brown

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Rosel George Brown

Rosel George was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 15, 1926. She attended Sophie Newcomb College and earned a Master of Arts degree in Greek at the University of Minnesota. In 1947, she married W. Burlie Brown, a lawyer who would go back to school in 1949 to earn a Ph.D. in history before joining the Tulane University faculty in 1951. Aside from the period when she was attending graduate school in Minnesota and Burlie was attending graduate school in North Carolina, Rosel George Brown lived in New Orleans. The Browns had two children. For about three years, Rosel worked as a welfare visitor.

Brown began publishing science fiction in 1958 when her story “From an Unseen Censor” appeared in the September issue of Galaxy Science Fiction alongside established authors Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Arthur C. Clarke, and Willy Ley. The following year, she published seven additional stories in If, Fantastic Universe, Star Science Fiction, F&SF, Galaxy, and Amazing, demonstrating the ability to sell to multiple editors. In 1959, she was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best New Writer, alongside Kit Reed, Louis Charbonneau, Pauline Ashwell, and Brian W. Aldiss.

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Birthday Reviews: Rosel George Brown’s “David’s Daddy”

Birthday Reviews: Rosel George Brown’s “David’s Daddy”

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Fantastic Science Fiction Stories June 1960 Fantastic Science Fiction Stories June 1960-contents 2-small

Cover by Burt Shonberg

Rosel George Brown was born on March 15, 1926 and died on November 26, 1967. She participated in the Milford Writers Workshop and in 1959 was nominated for a Hugo for Best New Author (losing to No Award; Brian W. Aldiss and Kit Reed were also nominated that year!)

Brown wrote the novel Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue and a sequel that was published posthumously. She also collaborated with Keith Laumer on Earthblood. Many of her short stories were collected in A Handful of Time.

“David’s Daddy” was originally published in Fantastic Science Fiction Stories in the June 1960 issued, edited by Cele Goldsmith. Judith Merril included the story in The 6th Annual of the Year’s Best SF and Ellen Datlow reprinted it in Sci Fiction on July 2, 2003.

In many ways “David’s Daddy” is a sadly prescient story. It is set in an elementary school where Lillian is a new teacher, learning the ropes from Miss Fremen, who has been there for twenty years. In the process of sharing tips, Miss Fremen also mentions that one of her students, Jerome, seems to have a strange sort of mental telepathy.

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