Margaret St. Clair

Margaret St. Clair (1911 - November 22, 1995) was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Idris Seabright. She started writing science fiction with the short story "Rocket to Limbo" in 1946. Her most creative period was during the fifties, when she wrote such acclaimed stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952) and "Horrer Howce" (1956). She largely stopped writing short stories after 1960.

The Best of Margaret St. Clair (1985) makes for a representative sampler of her short fiction.

Apart from more than 100 short stories, St. Clair also wrote eight novels.

Of interest beyond science fiction is her 1963 novel Signs of the Labrys,for its early use of Wicca elements in fiction. For more on this seethis review (External link).

Novels

The Green Queen (1956)
Agent of the Unknown (1956)
The Games of Neith (1960)
Signs of the Labrys (1963)
Three Worlds of Futurity (1964)
Message from the Eocene (1964)
The Dolphins of Altair (1967)
The Shadow People (1969)
The Dancers of Noyo (1973)

Short story collections

Change the Sky and Other Stories (1974)
The Best of Margaret St. Clair (1985)