WAS DONALD E. WESTLAKE A SCIENCE FICTION WRITER?
Everyone knows him as the mystery writer who published books like
The Hook
(2000),
Bad News
2001, and
Put a Lid on It
(2002) under his own name, Donald E. Westlake, and of course that he was also Richard Stark and a number of other favorite authors.
But a science fiction writer? -- Really? -- You bet he was, early on in his career. (He even wrote one SF novel --
Anarchaos
, in 1966, as "Curt Clark.")
He also wrote quite a bit of short SF, like this weird little SF mystery that first graced the pages of
Amazing
in 1963.