Charles Louis Fontenay was an American journalist and science fiction

Science fiction

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 writer.
He wrote science fiction novels and short stories. His non-fiction includes the biography of prominent New Deal

New Deal

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 era politician Estes Kefauver

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.

Mr. Fontenay served as editor of the Nashville Tennessean, among other newspapers, worked with the Associated Press

Associated Press

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 and Gannett News Service. He retired to St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida

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 where he continued to write science fiction until shortly before his death.

He held a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.

Science Fiction Novels (partial list)

• Modal(2000)
• Target: Grant, 1862 (1999)
• Kipton and the Android (1997)
• Kipton and the Ovoid (1996)
• Kipton in Wonderland (1996)
• Kipton and the Tower of Time (1996)
• The Day the Oceans Overflowed (1964)
• Rebels of the Red Planet (1961)

Short Fiction (partial list)

• The Jupiter Weapon (1959)
• Wind (1959)
• Service with a Smile (1958)
• Twice Upon a Time (1958)
• The Gift Bearer (1958)
• Atom Drive (1956)
• The Silk and the Song (1956)
• Z (1956)
• Disqualified (1954)

Collections

• The Collected Works of Charles L. Fontenay, Vol. 1 (1996)
• Here, There and Elsewhen (1998)

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