One Of Sci-Fi’s Best Short Story Writers Was Forgotten And You Need To Know His Work!

by 10.12.2026

Bruce McAllister published his first science fiction story at age 16 — selected by legendary editor Frederik Pohl and reprinted in year’s-best collections. He earned Hugo and Nebula nominations for “Dream Baby,” a haunting Vietnam-era novelette about an army nurse who can see the future. His story “The Boy in Zaquitos” was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2007. Gardner Dozois called his work excellent. And almost nobody in modern science fiction fandom knows his name. Jon Del Arroz’s Forgotten Legends series spotlights the authors the genre left behind — the short fiction masters who never got the mainstream recognition they deserved.

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