(September 4, 1916 – July 14, 1998)
Robert A. W. "Doc" Lowndes was fan, author, and editor. He was a principal member of the Futurians (and one of the six kept out of the first Worldcon by the Exclusion Act. He later became editor of Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly, and outside the SF field, western, crime-fiction, sports-fiction, and other magazines for Columbia Publications. He also worked on the Gernsback Publications' non-fiction magazine, Sexology. He received the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1991 and was GoH at Lunacon 12.
Probably his best known fanzine is Le Vombeiteur, but he also published the VAPA zine Agenbite of Inwit. He was a prolific user of pen names in his fannish writing with estimates over over fifty, including Satyricus. He also published the "interminable" fan fiction "Trigger Talk at Green Guna".
| Mystery of the Third Mine | Novel | Winston Juvenile | 1953 |
| The Duplicated Man (with James Blish) | Novel | Avalon | 1959 |
| Believer's World | Novel | Avalon | 1961 |
| The Puzzle Planet | Novel | Ace Double | 1961 |
| Three Faces of Science Fiction | Essays | NESFA Press | 1973 |
| The Gernsback Days with Mike Ashley | History | 2004 |
