Malcolm B. Morehart

Malcolm B. Morehart, often credited as Malcolm B. Morehart Jr., was a science fiction writer whose known published work appeared in the early 1950s. Two stories that can be firmly confirmed are Restricted Tool and The Fugitives, both originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in 1953.

His fiction has a classic pulp-science-fiction feel: fast-moving plots, strange devices, and people forced to make sense of situations that suddenly become much bigger than they expected. Restricted Tool follows a man who stumbles across alien technology, while The Fugitives throws its protagonist into a world where he becomes the outsider.

Although little biographical information is readily available, Morehart's stories have remained accessible through Project Gutenberg and continue to circulate through publisher listings and audiobook platforms. That lasting availability makes him one of those lesser-known genre writers whose work still offers a sharp glimpse of 1950s speculative fiction.