Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn) was a Russian-born American science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist. He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective. He also used the pseudonym <a href="/c/books/credit/470284/grendel-briarton/">Grendel Briarton</a>.
