About the author

Arthur Dekker Savage was a science fiction short story writer active in the early 1950s. His life, nationality, and dates of birth and death are unrecorded in authoritative sources, and publicly available information about him is very limited. Between 1952 and 1954 he published stories such as "The Butterfly Kiss," "D P," and "Trees Are Where You Find Them" in American magazines including If and Orbit; four of his works are held in the collection, along with "Fly By Night." These short pieces, often built on ingenious premises and brisk narration, carry the exploratory spirit of early science fiction magazine fiction and are frequently classed as inspirational and coming-of-age reading. He subsequently withdrew from the literary scene, leaving few further traces. Though his output was small, it remains a modest footnote for studying the American science fiction short story landscape of the 1950s.

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