Larry Eisenberg

Lawrence Eisenberg (December 21, 1919 – December 25, 2018) was an American biomedical engineer and science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story “What Happened to Auguste Clarot?”, published in Harlan Ellison’s anthology Dangerous Visions. Eisenberg’s stories have also been printed in a number of leading science fiction magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century, The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F, and Great Science Fiction By the World’s Great Scientists. He also wrote limericks, and later in life, he became known for the poems that he posted in the comments sections of various articles in The New York Times.