Limekiller!

Davidson was born on 23 April 1923, in Yonkers, New York. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman and saw overseas duty in the South Pacific. He was in China at the time of the Japanese surrender in September 1945. He was in Palestine just before the creation of Israel in May 1948, and apparently served as a medic in the newly-formed Israeli armed forces, and then worked for a while as a shepherd. Davidson began publishing short stories and essays in Orthodox Jewish Life in 1949, and then in Commentary, under the name A. A. Davidson. In July 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published its first story by Davidson, “My Boyfriend’s Name is Jello.” In the early 1960s, while editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, he lived in Mexico. In the middle and late 1960s, he lived in British Honduras and in the San Francisco Bay area. In later years, he moved to Washington state, where he died on 8 May 1993.

He published seventeen novels and wrote more than 200 stories and essays during his lifetime. Among his best- known stories are “Or All the Seas with Oysters,” “The Necessity of His Condition,” “The Affair at Lahore Cantonment,” “The Golem,” and “Naples,” all collected in The Avram Davidson Treasury (Tor, 1998), the first of several collections marking the literary rediscovery of Avram Davidson.

OLD EARTH BOOKS

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND