John Wiggin

John Wiggin appears to have been a pulp fiction author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on Cave-Dwellers of Saturn. The story was originally published in Planet Stories in Winter 1939, and later preserved through sources such as Project Gutenberg and genre bibliographies.

The available record suggests he wrote adventure-driven fiction for the magazine market of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Listings connected with old pulp magazines also place his name alongside other periodical fiction of that era, but detailed biographical information about his life has proven hard to confirm.

That scarcity is part of his interest today: he stands as one of the many magazine-era writers whose work survived even when personal details did not. For listeners who enjoy vintage space opera, his fiction offers a glimpse of early popular science fiction at its most energetic and earnest.