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Robert Abernathy

Lifespan
1924 – 1990
Nationality
American
Active
1942 – 1956
Works held
12

Robert Abernathy (1924–1990) contributed some forty carefully written short stories to the science-fiction magazines from 1942, beginning in Astounding. He never turned to novels; his day job was academic, as a professor of Slavic and mathematical linguistics at the University of Colorado. His spare, intelligent stories are quietly regarded among connoisseurs of the pulp era.

The works

  1. 1956
    Cover of Junior Junior
  2. 1955
    Cover of World of the Drone World of the Drone
  3. 1954
    Cover of The Record of Currupira The Record of Currupira Cover of When the Mountain Shook When the Mountain Shook
  4. 1953
    Cover of The Rotifers The Rotifers
  5. 1951
    Cover of Righteous plague Righteous plague
  6. 1950
    Cover of Strange Exodus Strange Exodus
  7. 1949
    Cover of Hostage of Tomorrow Hostage of Tomorrow Cover of The Dead-Star Rover The Dead-Star Rover Cover of The Giants Return The Giants Return
  8. 1944
    Cover of Saboteur of Space Saboteur of Space
  9. 1942
    Cover of Peril of the Blue World Peril of the Blue World

Wrote across

1940s1950s

Recurring themes

First ContactPost-ApocalypticMilitary SFSpace OperaSocial SFTime TravelDystopiaHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Nelson S. BondFritz LeiberGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergStephen Marlowe

Contemporaries writing in the same era

George O. SmithStephen MarloweRandall GarrettNelson S. BondBryce WaltonRobert SilverbergMurray LeinsterH. Beam PiperAlan Edward NourseAlfred Coppel

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