author
Ralph Milne Farley
1887–1963
A Massachusetts lawyer and politician by day, Roger Sherman Hoar wrote fast-moving science fiction under the name Ralph Milne Farley. His imaginative pulp adventures include The Radio Man, The Hidden Universe, and stories of interplanetary travel and lost worlds.
5 Audiobooks
The radio beasts
by Ralph Milne Farley
The radio planet
by Ralph Milne Farley
An Earthman on Venus (originally titled "The radio man")
by Ralph Milne Farley
Vallisneria madness
by Ralph Milne Farley
The radio gun-runners
by Ralph Milne Farley
About the author
Ralph Milne Farley was the pen name of Roger Sherman Hoar (1887–1963), an American lawyer, engineer, politician, and science-fiction writer. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Hoar served as a Massachusetts state senator and assistant attorney general while building a parallel career in popular fiction.
Farley’s stories appeared in pulp magazines including Argosy All-Story Weekly and Amazing Stories. His best-known works include The Radio Man, The Radio Planet, The Hidden Universe, The Omnibus of Time, and Strange Worlds, reflecting the era’s enthusiasm for radio technology, space travel, strange dimensions, and fantastic adventure.
Later accounts identify the Ralph Milne Farley name as a collaboration involving Hoar and, for stories published after 1932, his daughter Caroline Prescott Hoar. The portrait associated with this profile is of Roger Sherman Hoar, the writer behind the pseudonym.