Miles J. Breuer - Writing Career

Writing Career

Breuer's first published work of fiction was a Czech-language story called "The Man Without an Appetite" that appeared in the monthly Bratrsky Vestnik in 1916. Breuer had long been interested in scientific romances, particularly those of H. G. Wells. When Hugo Gernsback founded the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, Breuer began writing and submitting stories, publishing his first, "The Man with the Strange Head", in the January 1927 issue. Breuer went on to publish a total of thirty-six stories and two novels in the science fiction magazines over the next fifteen years, including collaborations with Jack Williamson and Clare Winger Harris.

Several of Breuer's stories were anthologized over the years, and in 2008 Michael R. Page of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln edited The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories, which included ten stories, the novel Paradise and Iron, and Breuer's editorial essay "The Future of Scientifiction".

Jack Williamson called Breuer "among the first and best of the amateurs whose work Gernsback began to print." Walter Gillings stated that Breuer wrote "some of the most intriguing tales that appeared in the early volumes of Amazing Stories," and John Clute described his work as crudely written, but intelligent and noted for new ideas.