F. M. Busby

Busby served during World War II as part of the Alaska Communication System, assigned to the island of Amchitka.

He subsequently returned to the Alaska Communication System to work in a civilian role based in Seattle.

Busby continued to work for the Alaska Communication System until 1971, when the organization was sold to private industry and renamed RCA Alascom and he took early retirement from the company.

4–5 books under those rules, and you're road kill; a publisher can't be expected to buy a book the chains won't pay out on.How real the influence of the Thor Power Tool decision was on Busby's writing career is uncertain, considering a great many of his novels were written and published after it.

Busby wrote over 40 short stories, thus leaving over 20 still uncollected, including: His work appeared in the following anthologies: