[j. d. worthington]

You think that's amazing? He wrote the original version of his novel The Golden Barge when he was "around eighteen".... The Sojan stories began appearing around 1957 -- crude stuff on the whole, but as the series progressed, they began to become much more sophisticated in the ideas he was exploring....

And his first (short story) version of "The Eternal Champion" saw print in June 1962....