author
J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard
1912–2001
A pulp-era science fiction writer with a knack for big ideas, he began publishing as a teenager and filled early magazine stories with speed-of-light travel, strange planets, and cosmic adventure. His work belongs to the energetic, experimental years when science fiction was still inventing many of its favorite themes.
4 Audiobooks
Derelicts of Uranus
by J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard
Task of Tau
by J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard
Healing Rays in Space
by J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard
Girl of the Silver Sphere
by J. Harvey (John Harvey) Haggard
About the author
Born in Missouri in 1912, J. Harvey Haggard was an American science fiction author who is also described by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as a railwayman. He became known mainly for stories in the early pulp magazines, especially Wonder Stories.
His first published story, "Faster Than Light," appeared in Wonder Stories in October 1930, when he was still a teenager. Reference sources connect him with other early genre magazines and anthologies as well, and his fiction is remembered for classic pulp ingredients: bold scientific speculation, space travel, and adventures on distant worlds.
Haggard died in 2001. While he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, his work remains part of the rich early history of magazine science fiction and the fast-moving imagination of the pulp era.