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Arthur Dekker Savage

A mid-century science fiction writer whose short novels and stories imagined space travel, atomic catastrophe, and survival under pressure. His work appeared in the pulp-magazine era and has stayed in circulation through later reprints and public-domain editions.

4 Audiobooks

Trees Are Where You Find Them

Trees Are Where You Find Them

by Arthur Dekker Savage

Fly By Night

Fly By Night

by Arthur Dekker Savage

The Butterfly Kiss

The Butterfly Kiss

by Arthur Dekker Savage

DP

DP

by Arthur Dekker Savage

About the author

Arthur Dekker Savage was an American science fiction writer associated with the 1950s magazine era. Confirmed online bibliographies link him to stories including Survivors, Fly By Night, DP, and Trees Are Where You Find Them, and records show his fiction appeared in magazines such as Imagination and If before later being reissued in ebook form.

His fiction leans toward classic speculative themes: post-apocalyptic survival, high-stakes experimentation, and the human side of technological change. Even from the surviving publication record, he comes across as one of those writers who helped shape the feel of mid-century popular science fiction through concise, idea-driven storytelling.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his publication history is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him primarily through the stories themselves and the magazines that first introduced them to readers.