Richard Stockham

Richard Stockham is an obscure American science fiction author whose surviving record is mostly bibliographic rather than biographical. Catalogs of speculative fiction identify him also as Richard E. Stockham, and they link him to a small body of short fiction from the 1950s.

His work appeared in science fiction magazines of the period, including a story in Galaxy in January 1955. Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through reprints, anthology collections, and public-domain ebook libraries, where his fiction continues to circulate long after its original magazine publication.

Because reliable personal information about him is scarce, many basic details of his life remain unclear. What stands out most is the afterlife of his stories: compact, idea-driven science fiction from the pulp and digest era that still attracts curious genre readers.