author
Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
1889–1945
A Nebraska physician with a sharp imagination, this early science fiction writer helped shape the pulp era while also publishing in Czech-American circles. His stories mixed scientific curiosity, satire, and a lively interest in how people adapt to strange new worlds.
3 Audiobooks
The Einstein See-Saw
by Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
The Oversight
by Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
The Gostak and the Doshes
by Miles J. (Miles John) Breuer
About the author
Born in Chicago in 1889 to Czech immigrant parents and raised in Nebraska, he built a life in medicine and literature at the same time. He served in the U.S. Medical Corps during World War I and spent much of his career as a doctor in Nebraska, while writing fiction and articles in both English and Czech.
He was part of the first generation of writers to publish regularly in the early science fiction magazines, with work appearing in Amazing Stories and other pulp venues in the late 1920s and 1930s. Readers often remember him for ideas-driven tales such as The Gostak and the Doshes and for his role in the formative years of American science fiction.
He died in 1945. Though not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, he remains an important figure in early genre history: a working physician, a bilingual writer, and a bridge between immigrant literary culture and the rise of modern science fiction.