Note: Unconfirmed date of death 1982-01-15. In a 2017 Usenet/Google Groups discussion a participant wrote: "He died at the age of 54, in Palma de Mallorca [Balearic Islands, Spain] on Jan 15 1982 after a short-lived and vicious battle against renal carcinoma. His death was attended by all of his family who would be the only ones who have this information, simply because nobody ever asked us." Note that Goldston published many non-SF books as "James Stark", a name shared with the artist who did 9 covers for the Scottish SF magazine ''Nebula Science Fiction'' in 1956-1958. At one point the defunct SFCovers.net Web site stated that the two "James Stark"s were the same person. However, no other source supports this claim -- see the James Stark record for details.