About Wyman Guin
Lived 1915 – 1989 (aged 73). Wyman Guin was an American novelist and science fiction writer.
"Beyond Bedlam" was the cover story in the August 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Wyman Woods Guin (March 1, 1915 – February 19, 1989) was an American pharmacologist and advertising executive best known for writing science fiction.
Born in Wanette, Oklahoma, he published his first story "Trigger Tide" in 1950 under the pseudonym Norman Menasco. Guin gained attention the following year with his novella "Beyond Bedlam" in Galaxy Science Fiction, for which he is best remembered. He published one novel, The Standing Joy, in 1969.
In 2013, Guin was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award at Readercon 24.
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American writer
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Wyman Guin was born on 1 March 1915 in Wanette.
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Wyman Guin died on 19 February 1989.
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Wyman Guin was a novelist and science fiction writer.
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