Margaret St. Clair
(February 17, 1911 – November 22, 1995)
Margaret St. Clair, born Eva Margaret Neeley, was a very early fan — a member of the Golden Gate Scientific Association in 1930! — but is much better known as an SF writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms of Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She coined the fannish catchphrase “broad mental horizons.”
From 1947 to 1949, she published a series of stories about Oona and Jick Ritterbush, a suburban married couple of the future who lived in a rotating house and ate “Super Whost,” the “chronometrized carbohydrate.”
She wrote eight novels, four of which were published in the Ace Double series. One of her most popular novels was Sign of the Labrys (1963), notable for its early use of Wicca elements in fiction.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- “The Elusive Margaret St. Clair” by Andrew Liptak, Kirkus Reviews, July 18, 2013.
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