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Robert Franklin Young (June 8, 1915 — June 22, 1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. He owned a property on Lake Erie.

He remained little known by the public, in the USA as well as abroad. His career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died. Only near the end of his life did the science fiction community learn he had been a janitor in the Buffalo public school system.

His production started in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. It mainly consisted of a long list of short stories with a poetic and romantic style that made him compared to Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon. A good deal of these stories have been published in France by Galaxie, Fiction and the science fiction anthologies in the Livre de Poche. In Italy most of his short stories were published at Urania.

His most famous short stories are perhaps "The Dandelion Girl", which influenced the director of the anime series RahXephon, and "Little Dog Gone", which was nominated in 1965 for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

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Total Books: 31
The Vizier's Second Daughter
1985 - The VIzier's Second Daughter (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780886770044
ISBN-10: 0886770041
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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The Last Yggdrasil
1982 - The Last Yggdrasil (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780345304209
ISBN-10: 0345304209
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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