Collected Fiction by David Wright O’Brien (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2018)
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Overview: David Wright O’Brien, born in 1918, was a prolific fantasy and science fiction writer, whose career was tragically cut-short after only four years.
A nephew of noted Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, he was 22 years old when his first story (“Truth Is a Plague!”) appeared in the February 1940 issue of Amazing Stories.
Between January 1941 and August 1942, he had more than fifty-seven stories published in pulp magazines, almost entirely for the Ziff-Davis magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures; most of them written under the pen names John York Cabot, Duncan Farnsworth, Clee Garson and Richard Vardon.
A few of O’Brien’s stories were co-written with his close friend, author William P. McGivern, with whom he shared an office in Chicago.
O’Brien continued writing even after he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, adding “corporal” before all his pseudonyms.
Some of O’Brien’s work was Space Opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humour, not unlike Henry Kuttner’s at that time. O’Brien was a sharp and creative writer who liked stories of madcap invention as well as the standard sf adventure of the day.
O’Brien died on December 11, 1944, at age twenty-six, while flying a bombing raid over Berlin, Germany.
(May 2020 – 75 Years VE)
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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