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Charles D. Cunningham
Best known for the science-fiction story The Man Who Flew, this little-documented writer left behind a compact body of work that still catches readers with its brisk ideas and classic magazine-era feel.
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The Man Who Flew
by Charles D. Cunningham
About the author
Charles D. Cunningham is credited as the author of The Man Who Flew, a science-fiction story that was originally published in If magazine in November 1962 and is now also available through Project Gutenberg. Some sources list the byline as Charles D. Cunningham, Jr., suggesting that he may have published under both forms of the name.
Reliable biographical information about him is scarce in the sources available online. Goodreads also lists The Jade Claw among works attributed to him, which points to a small but varied bibliography rather than a long, heavily documented career.
Because so little confirmed personal background is readily available, he is best remembered today through the surviving fiction itself: fast-moving, idea-driven storytelling from the mid-century pulp and digest tradition.