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Ernest M. Kenyon

Best known for a small but memorable body of science fiction, this American writer published sparingly and left behind work that still catches readers’ attention. His stories include the early piece "Security" and the later novel Rogue Golem, with its uneasy vision of an android in a tightly controlled future.

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Security

Security

by Ernest M. Kenyon

About the author

Ernest M. Kenyon was an American author, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1920, and he died in Portland, Maine, on June 24, 1980.

Reliable reference sources describe him as a science fiction writer who began publishing in the 1950s. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes that he started with the story "Security," which appeared in Astounding in October 1955, and says he did not actively pursue a large career in the genre.

Even so, his work has had a modest afterlife among science fiction readers and audiobook listeners. He is especially associated with Rogue Golem (1977), a novel about an android in a regimented near-future society, and his fiction remains discoverable through public-domain and reader-focused archives.