Milo Hastings

Born on June 28, 1884, Milo Hastings was an American writer, inventor, and nutritionist whose career moved across several fields. He is remembered for combining hands-on technical knowledge with an imaginative streak, which gave his nonfiction and fiction a distinctive, practical edge.

Before and alongside his writing life, he worked on ideas related to food production and poultry raising, and he also wrote about nutrition. That background shaped much of his work: even when he was inventing strange futures on the page, his ideas often felt grounded in real systems, industries, and everyday needs.

Hastings is especially noted today for the dystopian novel City of Endless Night, an early science-fiction work that helped keep his name alive with modern readers. He died on February 25, 1957, leaving behind a body of work that shows how closely invention and storytelling can belong together.