author
Ernest M. Kenyon
Best known for the science-fiction novel Rogue Golem and the short story "Security," this American writer left a small but memorable mark on mid-20th-century speculative fiction. His work often explored control, identity, and what happens when rigid systems begin to crack.
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Security
by Ernest M. Kenyon
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania on August 24, 1920, Ernest M. Kenyon was an American author whose fiction appeared only occasionally, but with a distinctive science-fiction bent. Reference sources identify him more fully as Ernest Monroe Kenyon and note that he died in Portland, Maine, on June 24, 1980.
Kenyon began publishing science fiction with "Security," which appeared in Astounding in October 1955. Although he did not pursue a large career in the field, he is remembered for Rogue Golem (1977), a novel about an android in a tightly controlled future society who begins to question his own nature.
That relatively small body of work is part of what gives Kenyon a certain curiosity value for readers today. He stands out as one of those writers whose few surviving stories still capture classic science-fiction concerns in a clear, accessible way.