author
Jr. Irving E. Cox
1917–2001
Best known for brisk, idea-driven science fiction, this mid-century writer published a stream of short stories in the 1950s and 1960s, plus a single novel. His fiction often leans into pulp-era energy while exploring social pressure, technology, and imagined futures.
7 Audiobooks
Export Commodity
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
Miracle by Price
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
The Almost-Men
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
To the sons of tomorrow
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
The Earthman
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
Firth's World
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
The Pioneer
by Jr. Irving E. Cox
About the author
Irving E. Cox Jr. was an American author born on May 24, 1917, and he died on February 13, 2001. Reliable catalog and library sources identify him as a prolific writer of short fiction, especially in science fiction, with most of his published work appearing from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s.
He is commonly associated with magazine science fiction of that era, and modern public-domain collections still circulate many of his stories, including The Guardians, Impact, and The Instant of Now. Sources located for this overview also point to a single known novel, Murder Among Friends (1956), alongside his larger body of shorter work.
Although he is not a household name today, his stories remain easy to discover through audiobook, ebook, and public-domain archives. For listeners who enjoy compact speculative fiction with classic pulp pacing and big-concept setups, his work offers a lively snapshot of mid-20th-century science fiction.