Miles J. Breuer

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Miles John Breuer (born January 3, 1889 in Chicago ; died October 14, 1945 in Los Angeles ) was an American doctor and science fiction writer.

Life

Breuer's parents, Charles and Barbara Breuer, came from what is now the Czech Republic , which was then part of Austria-Hungary . Breuer's father was a doctor, and in 1893 the parents had settled in Nebraska, where Miles grew up in the small town of Crete . In 1906 he graduated from high school there and began to study at the University of Texas . After studying medicine at Rush Medical College , he began working in his father's office in Lincoln . In 1916 he married Julia Strejic, with whom he had three children. During the First World War he served in France in the Medical Corps of the US Army . After the war he continued to work in his father's practice and published articles on popular medicine in Czech-language magazines and newspapers. He has also published a number of articles in English journals and a textbook on physiotherapy . In the early 1940s he moved to Los Angeles, where he continued to practice and died in 1945 at the age of 56 after a brief illness.

In addition to his work as a doctor, Breuer was a passionate reader and book collector, one of whose favorite authors was HG Wells , whose short stories were reprinted in the Amazing Stories magazine, which was first published in April 1926 . Breuer had started to write himself, a story by him had already appeared in Czech in 1916 in the magazine Bratrsky Vestník , and Breuer became one of the first authors of original articles in Amazing Stories with his story The Man with the Strange Head, published in January 1927 .

Over the course of the following years, Breuer wrote over three dozen short stories, many of which have a medical professional as protagonist and deal with questions about the future of medicine. Most of his stories appeared in Amazing Stories or Amazing Stories Quarterly , where his two novels, Paradise and Iron (1930) and The Birth of a New Republic (1930, together with Jack Williamson ), were first published. One of his stories, The Book of Worlds (1929), was also translated into German. In 2008, Michael R. Page published a collection of his short stories, The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories .

bibliography

The Fitzgerald Contraction (short stories)
  • 1 The Fitzgerald Contraction (in: Science Wonder Stories, January 1930 )
  • 2 The Time Valve (in: Wonder Stories, July 1930 )
Novels
  • Paradise and Iron (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1930 )
  • The Birth of a New Republic (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1931 ; with Jack Williamson )
Collections
  • The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (2008)
Short stories

1927:

  • The Man with the Strange Head (in: Amazing Stories, January 1927 )
  • The Stone Cat (in: Amazing Stories, September 1927 )
  • The Riot at Sanderac (in: Amazing Stories, December 1927 )

1928:

  • The Appendix and the Spectacles (in: Amazing Stories, December 1928 )
  • The Puzzle Duel (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1928 )

1929:

  • The Captured Cross-Section (in: Amazing Stories, February 1929 )
  • Buried Treasure (in: Amazing Stories, April 1929 )
  • The Book of Worlds (in: Amazing Stories, July 1929 )
  • Rays and Men (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1929 )
  • A Baby on Neptune (in: Amazing Stories, December 1929 ; also: The Dead World , 1953; also: Child of Neptune , 1941; with Clare Winger Harris)
  • The Girl from Mars (1929; with Jack Williamson)

1930:

  • The Hungry Guinea-Pig (in: Amazing Stories, January 1930 ; also: The Hungry Guinea Pig , 1955)
  • The Gostak and the Doshes (in: Amazing Stories, March 1930 )
  • The Driving Power (in: Amazing Stories, July 1930 ; also: Lady of the Atoms , 1941)
  • The Inferiority Complex (in: Amazing Stories, September 1930 )
  • A Problem in Communication (in: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, September 1930 )

1931:

  • On Board the Martian Liner (in: Amazing Stories, March 1931 )
  • The Time Flight (in: Amazing Stories, June 1931 )
  • The Demons of Rhadi-Mu (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1931 )

1932:

  • The Einstein See-Saw (in: Astounding Stories, April 1932 )
  • Mechanocracy (in: Amazing Stories, April 1932 )
  • The Perfect Planet (in: Amazing Stories, May 1932 ; also: Breath of Utopia , 1942)
  • The Finger of the Past (in: Amazing Stories, November 1932 )

1933:

  • The Strength of the Weak (in: Amazing Stories, December 1933 )

1935:

  • Millions for Defense (in: Amazing Stories, March 1935 )
  • The Chemistry Murder Case (in: Amazing Stories, October 1935 )
  • Mars Colonizes (in: Marvel Tales, Summer 1935 )

1936:

  • Mr. Bowen's Wife Reduces (in: Amazing Stories, August 1936 )

1937:

  • The Company or the Weather (in: Amazing Stories, June 1937 )

1939:

  • The Raid from Mars (in: Amazing Stories, March 1939 )
  • The Disappearing Papers (in: Future Fiction, November 1939 )

1940:

  • The Oversight (in: Comet, December 1940 )

1942:

  • The Sheriff of Thorium Gulch (in: Amazing Stories, August 1942 )

1963:

  • The Man Without an Appetite (1963, in: Noah D. Fabricant and Groff Conklin (Eds.): Great Science Fiction About Doctors )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Miles John Breuer  - Sources and full texts (English)
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Miles J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breuer, Miles John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1945
Place of death los Angeles