Cleve Cartmill

Cleve Cartmill at the 1958 Worldcon (Solacon)
Cleve Cartmill
Born(1908-06-21)June 21, 1908
Platteville, Wisconsin
DiedFebruary 11, 1964(1964-02-11) (aged 55)
Orange County, California

Cleve Cartmill (June 21, 1908 in Platteville, Wisconsin – February 11, 1964 in Orange County, California)[1] was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cleve Cartmill affair",[2][3] when his 1944 story "Deadline" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon similar to that being developed by the highly classified Manhattan Project.[4]

  1. ^ "Authors : Cartmill, Cleve". Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  2. ^ "Pulp SF magazine's role in atom bomb". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on 2005-09-11.
  3. ^ Silverberg, Robert (September 2003). "Reflections: The Cleve Cartmill Affair: One". Asimov's Science Fiction. Archived from the original on 2013-06-18.
  4. ^ "Science Fiction Writers Stay Step Ahead of Developments". Sunday Gazette-Mail. November 26, 1961. p. 52. Retrieved May 26, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon