Arthur Dekker Savage

Arthur Dekker Savage was an American writer best known for science fiction short stories. Public-domain and publisher listings confirm works including DP, Fly By Night, Survivors, and Trees Are Where You Find Them, which place him among the many magazine-era authors whose fiction was built around sharp premises and quick, memorable storytelling.

His surviving bibliography suggests a writer drawn to speculative settings and human problems under pressure: colonized worlds, dangerous environments, and social systems pushed to odd extremes. While detailed biographical information is scarce in the sources I found, his work remains accessible through Project Gutenberg and modern publisher catalog pages, which has helped keep his stories available for new audiobook listeners.

Because reliable author profiles are limited, much of his reputation now rests on the stories themselves. For readers who enjoy classic short science fiction, he offers the appeal of concise adventures and thought experiments from the pulp and post-pulp tradition.