author
Patrick Fahy
A little-known science fiction writer from the early 1960s, remembered today for sharp, imaginative tales that still feel lively and strange. His surviving work includes stories of alien threats, bad decisions, and humanity under pressure.
2 Audiobooks
Bad Memory
by Patrick Fahy
The Mightiest Man
by Patrick Fahy
About the author
Patrick Fahy is a mid-20th-century science fiction writer whose work appeared in the early 1960s. Reliable public sources for his life are quite limited, but library and public-domain records confirm his association with that period of magazine science fiction and with the novella The Mightiest Man.
His best-known surviving work today is The Mightiest Man, which Project Gutenberg describes as a science fiction novella from the early 1960s. LibriVox also lists him as a writer of science fiction stories from that era, suggesting that his reputation now rests mainly on a small body of shorter speculative fiction rather than on a large, well-documented career.
Because biographical details are scarce, Fahy remains a somewhat mysterious figure. That lack of background can add to the appeal for curious listeners: the stories stand in the foreground, carrying the voice of a writer whose imagination outlasted the record of his life.