Everett B. Cole was an American writer of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories and a professional soldier. He worked as a signal maintenance and property officer at Fort Douglas, Utah

Fort Douglas, Utah

Camp Douglas was established in October 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In 1878, the post was renamed Fort Douglas. The fort was officially...

. His first science fiction story, "Philosophical Corps" was published in the magazine Astounding in 1951. His fix-up

Fix-up

A fix-up is a novel created from short stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material—such as a frame story—is written for the new novel. The term was coined by the science fiction...

 of that story and two others, The Philosophical Corps

The Philosophical Corps

The Philosophical Corps is science fiction novel by author Everett B. Cole. It was published in 1962 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies...

, was published by Gnome Press

Gnome Press

Gnome Press was an American small-press publishing company primarily known for publishing many science fiction classics.The company was founded in 1948 by Martin Greenberg and David A. Kyle. Many of Gnome's titles were reprinted in England by Boardman Books...

 in 1962. A second novel, The Best Made Plans, was serialized in Astounding in 1959, but never published in book form. He also co-authored historical books about the south Texas region.

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