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In the wake of Cameron Reed's announcement that she is working on a new book and that Locus-nominated The Fortunate Fall is being republished next year, James Davis Nicoll points us at five other science fiction and fantasy authors whose careers ended too soon, for various reasons.

The post includes Goodreads links to the works of the cited authors:

• Walter M. Miller, Jr., author of the Hugo-winning classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, who suffered from PTSD and depression due to his service in World War II.
• Doris Piserchia, who stopped publishing soon after her adult daughter died.
• Alexei Panshin, who won the Nebula for Rite of Passage, but then turned primarily to critique, for which he would win two Hugos.
• "Alison Tellure", the pseudonymous author of five stories that Nicoll hails as "memorable forays into alien psychology". Nicoll admits, however, that we cannot be certain that the person who wrote those stories has stopped publishing entirely.
• Alexis A. Gilliland is the only one of the five who is (definitely) still alive and could thus publish again, but in the decades since winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (beating David Brin and Michael Swanwick), has become more famous as an artist, winning four Hugos for Best Fan Artist.

Note: Cameron Reed went by "Raphael Carter" when TFF was published. The Wikipedia entries for her and the book have not been updated.