author
Charles D. Cunningham
A little-known science fiction writer whose surviving work points to a knack for classic pulp-era ideas, blending futuristic crime, telepathy, and mystery. His name is most closely tied today to a single rediscovered short story from the early 1960s.
1 Audiobook
The Man Who Flew
by Charles D. Cunningham
About the author
Charles D. Cunningham, Jr. appears to have been a lightly documented American science fiction writer. The clearest widely available record connects him to "The Man Who Flew," a short story first published in Worlds of If Science Fiction in November 1962 and later preserved through Project Gutenberg.
Online book catalogs and reader databases also associate him with The Jade Claw, suggesting that his writing ranged beyond one magazine story. Even so, biographical details about his life, career, and background are scarce in reliable public sources, so most modern readers encounter him through the surviving fiction rather than through a well-recorded author biography.
That gives his work a certain old-magazine charm: he feels like one of the many mid-century genre writers whose stories outlasted the personal record. For listeners who enjoy rediscovered speculative fiction, Cunningham represents that intriguing corner of science fiction history where a single preserved story can keep an author in circulation.