author
Sam McClatchie
b. 1915
A mid-20th-century writer with a medical background, he published science fiction that mixed suspense with big speculative ideas. His known work includes the novels The Last Vial and Mother America, both remembered by readers of vintage pulp-era SF.
2 Audiobooks
The last vial
by Sam McClatchie
Mother America
by Sam McClatchie
About the author
Sam McClatchie was an author born in 1915 whose books are listed by major library and ebook catalogues, including Project Gutenberg. The records available for his fiction connect him most clearly with The Last Vial and Mother America, two science-fiction novels that have continued to circulate in reprint and digital form.
Contemporary and later listings also identify him as Sam McClatchie, M.D., which fits the medical angle of The Last Vial. That novel appeared in Amazing Stories as a serial, suggesting he wrote for the magazine science-fiction market of the early 1960s as well as in book form.
Reliable biographical detail beyond those publication traces is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to keep the picture simple: he was a 1915-born author, apparently writing under a professional medical designation, and is best known today for a small body of speculative fiction with a distinctly scientific and cautionary feel.