`

Nebraska Authors

Miles J. Breuer

Born 1889-01-03 Chicago, IL (USA)

Died 1945-10-14
Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Buried
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Los Angeles National Cemetery

A prominent physician in Lincoln, Miles Beuer was perhaps best known as a pioneering science fiction writer for magazines in the 1920s and 1930s. Much of what is known as science fiction originated - and found themes, styles and modes - in these science fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. Breuer was inspired by the work of H.G. Wells, and himself inspired masterful science fiction writers from Jack Williamson to Robert A. Heinlein.
Michael Page compiled and edited an anthology of Breuer's work, The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories, which includes ten stories, the novel Paradise and Iron, and Breuer's editorial essay "The Future of Scientifiction".

Places Lived

Chicago, IL
Austin, TX
Crete, NE
Lincoln, NE
Los Angeles, CA

Author Of

  • Fiction

Keywords

Science Fiction

Education

High School Diploma, 1906, Crete High School, Crete, NE
Masters Degree, 1911, University of Texas, Austin, TX
M.D., 1915, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Occupation

Physician
Science Fiction Writer

Places Worked

Army Medical Corps during WWI
Family Medical Practice in Crete, NE

Bibliography

The Man Without an Appetite. 1916. (his first story)
"Paradise and Iron" in Amazing Stories Quarterly, 1930.
The Birth of a New Republic. with Jack Williamson, 1931.
The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. 2008. (edited by Michael Page)

Many contributions to pulp science fiction magazines, including:
Amazing Stories
Astounding Stories of Super-Science
Avon Fantasy Reader
Comet Stories
Future Fiction
Marvel Tales
Science Wonder Stories
Wonder Stories

We appreciate corrections and additions to our information about authors, but please read the following guidelines and caveats carefully.

  • The Nebraska Authors database is based on publicly available sources. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information. We cannot include unsourced information in the database.
  • We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database.
  • To include an image on an author profile, please send jpg attachment to nebraskaauthors@lincoln.ne.gov. A photo-release agreement is required before the image will be published on this site.
  • Because of the way we are staffed, expect corrections or additions to take time, sometimes up to three months.
  • While we initially included some actual links to external URLs in the database, we will in the future no longer provide functioning links. We will instead record the presence of specific external materials in language that we hope will help intelligent users find it themselves. Web rot, in which actual materials remain online but undergo changes in their URLs, is too demanding in terms of staff time for us to hope to keep external links current.

Please copy, fill out the form below, and email it to NebraskaAuthors@lincoln.ne.gov to suggest a change.

/
Miles J. Breuer
miles-breuer

Do you have corrections for the above information or other information to add?:

(e.g. Author is buried in Fremont, not in David City / Also wrote for the Daily Nebraskan during her time as a student)