author
Jack McKenty
A little-known science fiction writer from the pulp-magazine era, remembered for brisk, witty stories with big speculative ideas. His surviving work points to a brief but memorable run in the early 1950s, including tales first published in Galaxy Science Fiction.
2 Audiobooks
$1,000 a Plate
by Jack McKenty
Wait for Weight
by Jack McKenty
About the author
Jack McKenty was a science fiction author whose known work appeared in the early 1950s. Catalog and public-domain sources consistently link him with stories such as Wait for Weight and $1,000 a Plate, both of which later became available through Project Gutenberg and audiobook platforms.
His fiction leans toward classic mid-century magazine science fiction: imaginative settings, practical problems, and a playful sense of irony. Wait for Weight is associated with Galaxy in October 1952, while $1,000 a Plate appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1954, suggesting that his work found a home in one of the era’s best-known SF magazines.
Very little confirmed biographical detail about his life seems to be readily available in reliable public sources. Because of that, McKenty is best introduced through the stories themselves: compact, clever pieces of vintage speculative fiction that still capture the curiosity and energy of 1950s science fiction.