Jim Harmon
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Following a 1962 screening of Don Glut's films at CBS (Hollywood), Glut took this photo of film editor Bob Burns, Jim Harmon, and musician Ron Haydock.
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| Born | James Judson Harmon April 21, 1933 Mount Carmel, Illinois |
| Died | February 16, 2010 (aged 76) Burbank, California |
| Pen name | Judson Grey "Mr. Nostalgia" |
| Occupation | Historian, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Subject | Radio |
| Notable works | Harmon's Galaxy |
James Judson Harmon (21 April 1933 – 16 February 2010), better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio. He sometimes used the pseudonym Judson Grey, and occasionally he was labeled Mr. Nostalgia.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Harmon wrote more than 50 short stories and novelettes for Amazing Stories, Future Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, If, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Venture Science Fiction Magazine and other magazines. These were collected in such science fiction anthologies as Fourth Galaxy Reader, Galaxy: Thirty Years of Speculative Fiction and Rare Science Fiction.
The best of Harmon's science fiction stories were reprinted in Harmon's Galaxy (Cosmos Books, 2004) with an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. The collection includes one from the December 1962 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ("The Depths") and five from Galaxy—"Charity Case" (December 1959), "Name Your Symptom" (May 1956), "No Substitutions" (November 1958), "The Place Where Chicago Was" (February 1962) and "The Spicy Sound of Success" (August 1959).
His only science fiction novel, The Contested Earth (Ramble House,1959), was given its first publication in 2007 along with seven short stories in The Contested Earth and Other SF Stories. In the introduction, Harmon reflected on the novel's history:
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