Benjamin Witwer

Benjamin Witwer is a very obscure figure in early pulp science fiction. The clearest trace available online is his story Radio Mates, published in the July 1927 issue of Amazing Stories and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

That surviving work hints at the kind of fiction he wrote: imaginative, technology-driven, and rooted in the excitement surrounding radio and speculative science in the 1920s. For listeners interested in the history of genre fiction, Witwer represents one of the many writers who helped shape the mood of early magazine science fiction, even if only a small published record remains easy to confirm.

Because reliable biographical sources are so scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about his life beyond his authorship of Radio Mates. In cases like this, the story itself becomes the best introduction to the author behind it.