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Carl Selwyn

Lifespan
1917 – 1984
Nationality
American
Active
1940 – 1947
Works held
7

Carl Selwyn (1917–1984), born Carl Selwyn Pugh, Jr., burst onto the scene in 1940 as one of Planet Stories’ most prolific new writers, turning out fast, boy-gets-girl space opera set among Mercurians, Venusians and Martians. He left about ten stories before the war and a Hollywood job with MGM drew him away, a small, characteristic corner of the pulp Solar System that Brackett and Bradbury would later enrich.

The works

  1. 1947
    Cover of Earth Is Missing! Earth Is Missing!
  2. 1946
    Cover of Space Bat Space Bat
  3. 1944
    Cover of The Citadel of Death The Citadel of Death
  4. 1941
    Cover of Ice Planet Ice Planet
  5. 1940
    Cover of Exiles of the Three Red Moons Exiles of the Three Red Moons Cover of Revolt on the Earth-Star Revolt on the Earth-Star Cover of Venus Has Green Eyes Venus Has Green Eyes

Wrote across

1940s

Recurring themes

Space OperaAdventureDystopiaPost-ApocalypticHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonC. M. KornbluthEdward W. LudwigFrederik PohlGeorge Chetwynd GriffithGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeMurray Leinster

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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