David R. Bunch

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David R. Bunch

1925–2000

Best known for a fierce, darkly satirical vision of mechanized society, this American science fiction writer created the unsettling Moderan stories, where war, technology, and dehumanization collide. His work earned lasting admiration from readers of experimental and socially sharp speculative fiction.

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In the Jag-Whiffing Service

In the Jag-Whiffing Service

by David R. Bunch

About the author

Born in Lowry City, Missouri, in 1925, David R. Bunch served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He later studied at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa, and worked for many years as a civilian cartographer before becoming a full-time writer.

Bunch is most closely associated with Moderan, his linked sequence of stories about a brutal, metallic future. The book and the stories around it are often remembered for their strange, compressed style and their biting satire of violence, power, and technological obsession.

He died in St. Louis in 2000. Though never a mass-market name, he remains a distinctive figure in American science fiction, especially for readers drawn to bold, unsettling short fiction.