Allen Kim Lang (1928–2018) was an American science fiction writer active primarily from the mid-1950s through the 1960s. He trained and worked as a sanitary and public health engineer for the U.S. Public Health Service, a profession that shaped the technical and public-health themes running through his fiction. He published short fiction in the major genre magazines of the era, including Astounding (later Analog), Galaxy, and If, often blending hard-engineering detail with satire. His best-known book-length works are the novels Wild and Outside (1966) and Blockade Runner (1968), and he also contributed to the shared-world anthology projects popular in the period. His prose is competent and workmanlike in the mid-century Analog manner — problem-solving engineers as protagonists, technological plausibility, and an occasional wry humor — rather than literary experimentation. A minor but respected figure of the magazine Silver Age, he is not widely reprinted today, and his work is now chiefly of interest to genre historians and collectors of vintage science fiction magazines.
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