Roger Kuykendall

Roger Kuykendall was an American science-fiction writer active in the late 1950s. Bibliographic sources and public-domain archives confirm two stories in Astounding Science Fiction: We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly in May 1959 and All Day September in June 1959.

His best-known story, We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, was later reprinted in the anthology Prologue to Analog, which helped preserve it for later readers. Today, his fiction remains easiest to find through archive and audiobook projects, where it still feels brisk, funny, and very much at home in classic magazine science fiction.

Very little biographical information about Kuykendall appears to be publicly documented, so most of what survives is through his published work rather than personal history. That mystery gives his stories an extra bit of charm: they feel like bright flashes from a writer who appeared briefly, wrote well, and then vanished from view.