author

Jack Egan

b. 1945

Best known for a handful of science-fiction stories published when he was very young, this elusive writer remains a small mystery of the magazine era. His work has stayed alive through public-domain reprints and audiobook recordings, especially the story Cully.

1 Audiobook

World Edge

World Edge

by Jack Egan

About the author

Jack Egan is listed by LibriVox as John William Egan, born in 1945, and described there as an American science-fiction author.

Reliable biographical details are scarce, which is part of what makes him interesting. Publicly available sources found here point to a very small body of published work, and they consistently connect his name with short science-fiction pieces rather than novels. His story Cully is preserved by Project Gutenberg and has been recorded multiple times by LibriVox, which suggests that at least some of his fiction continues to find new readers and listeners long after its original magazine publication.

Because confirmed information is limited, it is safest to think of him as a little-known mid-20th-century science-fiction writer whose reputation rests on a few surviving stories in the public domain. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed in this session.