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> From: cbi...@netcom.com (Charles Bishop)
> Subject: old short story in Analog/identify author
> Keywords: WBY, analog
> Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 04:29:55 GMT
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have been trying to remember the author of a series of shorts stories
> I read in Analog, perhaps in the late 60's or early 70's. I don't have
> my back issues here so I can't check.
>
> The short stories involved a man who had set up a company, WBY (Wild
> Blue Yonder), to investigate strange claims of the paranormal. Most
> of them were routine, but occassionally one would involve what was
> probably a sapce artifact. They were written with a fair amount of
> humor and I still chuckle when I remember bits of them. The author
> was a somehting MacSomething, I think but I could be wrong.
> Does anyone remember them as well? Did the author ever write anything
> else or was this name a nom d'?
> Thanks for the help.
>
The name on the stories was "W. MacFarlane;" same writer also did
a series of stories about an Elder Race called the Prodromals.
A friend has told me that the WBY stories were collected into a
novel-sized book, but I haven't seen it.
If they're not in print, they should be; they're great fun.