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Charles V. De Vet

Lifespan
1911 – 1997
Nationality
American
Active
1952 – 1962
Works held
16

Charles V. De Vet (1911–1997) was a Michigan schoolteacher and, for most of his life, a U.S. postal worker who published more than fifty science-fiction stories from 1950 on. His best-known work is Cosmic Checkmate (from the novella ‘Second Game’), written with Katherine MacLean, in which an interstellar conflict turns on a board game. A quietly intelligent contributor to the magazines.

The works

  1. 1962
    Cover of Gramp Gramp
  2. 1961
    Cover of Lorelei Lorelei
  3. 1960
    Cover of Metamorphosis Metamorphosis Cover of Monkey On His Back Monkey On His Back
  4. 1959
    Cover of Vital Ingredient Vital Ingredient
  5. 1958
    Cover of Specimen Specimen
  6. 1957
    Cover of Death of a mutant Death of a mutant Cover of Growing up on Big Muddy Growing up on Big Muddy Cover of Survival factor Survival factor
  7. 1955
    Cover of Big Stupe Big Stupe
  8. 1953
    Cover of Bunzo Farewell Bunzo Farewell Cover of Delayed Action Delayed Action Cover of The Berserker The Berserker Cover of There is a Reaper ... There is a Reaper ...
  9. 1952
    Cover of Infinity's Child Infinity's Child Cover of Wheels Within Wheels Within

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFFirst ContactPsychic PowersSpace OperaColonizationAdventureHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelBryce WaltonF. L. WallaceFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeJerome Bixby

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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