Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.
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The opening installment of Mars Child, by Merril and Cyril Kornbluth, took the cover of the May 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
Another Merril-Kornbluth collaboration, the novelette "Sea-Change", was the cover story for the second issue of Dynamic Science Fiction in 1953. It has apparently never been reprinted.
Merril's "The Deep Down Dragon" was the cover story for the August 1961 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
Merril's novelette "The Shrine of Temptation" took the cover of the April 1962 issue of Fantastic, featuring George Barr's first professional cover art.
Merril's novelette "The Lonely" was the cover story on the October 1963 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow.Awards 2
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About this person
Country
CanadaCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 1997 · aged 74
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17 languages
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