author
Hugh Frazier Parker
A little-known pulp-era science fiction writer, remembered today for a single fast-moving planetary adventure first published in the 1940s. His surviving work has the feel of classic magazine sci-fi: bold stakes, distant worlds, and an easy taste for action.
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The Sword of Johnny Damokles
by Hugh Frazier Parker
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about Hugh Frazier Parker appears to be widely available online. What can be verified is that he wrote The Sword of Johnny Damokles, a science-fiction adventure that was published in Planet Stories in March 1943.
That story is the main reason Parker is still remembered. It has been preserved through Project Gutenberg and other archival listings, which suggests that even though his published record seems slim, his work remains of interest to readers of vintage pulp science fiction.
Because reliable personal details are scarce, it is safest to think of Parker as one of the many lesser-known voices of the pulp-magazine era: an author whose name survives chiefly through a single imaginative tale rather than a well-documented public life.