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Albert dePina

Lifespan
1907 – 1957
Nationality
American
Active
1943 – 1947
Works held
5

Albert dePina (1907–1957) was a Planet Stories regular whose colourful space opera appeared on its covers in the mid-1940s. Never prolific, he produced about ten stories from 1943 to 1953, several written with Henry Hasse, ‘Star Guardsman’, ‘Moon of Danger’ and others. A characteristic entertainer of the pulp Solar System.

The works

  1. 1947
    Cover of Moon of Danger Moon of Danger
  2. 1945
    Cover of The Silver Plague The Silver Plague
  3. 1944
    Cover of Keeper of the Deathless Sleep Keeper of the Deathless Sleep Cover of Minions of the Crystal Sphere Minions of the Crystal Sphere
  4. 1943
    Cover of The Star Guardsman The Star Guardsman

Wrote across

1940s

Recurring themes

Space OperaPost-ApocalypticAdventureMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alfred CoppelBill GarsonBryce WaltonC. M. KornbluthEdgar Rice BurroughsEdmond HamiltonFox B. HoldenGeorge Chetwynd Griffith

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Nelson S. BondGeorge O. SmithRay CummingsLeigh BrackettRay BradburyBasil WellsHenry HasseHenry KuttnerR. R. WinterbothamRobert Emmett McDowell

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