author
Jack Egan
b. 1945
A little-known American science fiction writer, born in 1945, published stories such as Cully and World Edge in the early 1960s. His work leans toward psychological and surreal science fiction, giving familiar pulp-era ideas a stranger, dreamlike feel.
1 Audiobook
World Edge
by Jack Egan
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to be widely available for Jack Egan beyond the basic note used by LibriVox, which identifies him as John William Egan and gives his birth year as 1945. He is described there as an American science fiction author.
His surviving reputation seems to rest mainly on short science fiction works that have been preserved through Project Gutenberg, including Cully and World Edge. Those stories were originally published in the early 1960s and show an interest in altered reality, identity, and unsettling speculative situations rather than straightforward adventure.
Because reliable public sources are sparse, much of his life and career remains hard to confirm. Even so, the fiction that is available suggests a writer drawn to the stranger, more introspective side of mid-century science fiction.