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Robert Emmett McDowell

Lifespan
1914 – 1975
Nationality
American
Active
1945 – 1950
Works held
11

Robert Emmett McDowell (1914–1975) got his start in the pulp magazines, publishing just under forty stories and novelettes between 1945 and 1954, the first a science-fiction tale, ‘The Happy Castaways’, in Planet Stories. As the pulps died he moved into paperback crime novels and then into his lasting role as a respected historian of Kentucky and the Civil War.

The works

  1. 1950
    Cover of Moon of Treason Moon of Treason
  2. 1949
    Cover of Sword of Fire Sword of Fire
  3. 1948
    Cover of Citadel of the Green Death Citadel of the Green Death Cover of The Outcasts of Solar III The Outcasts of Solar III
  4. 1947
    Cover of Beyond the Yellow Fog Beyond the Yellow Fog Cover of Black Silence Black Silence
  5. 1946
    Cover of Love Among the Robots Love Among the Robots Cover of The Blue Venus The Blue Venus
  6. 1945
    Cover of Red Witch of Mercury Red Witch of Mercury Cover of The Great Green Blight The Great Green Blight Cover of The Happy Castaway The Happy Castaway

Wrote across

1940s1950s

Recurring themes

Space OperaAdventureColonizationPost-ApocalypticFirst ContactArtificial IntelligencePsychic PowersMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonRandall GarrettRobert SheckleyRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweAlfred CoppelBasil WellsFox B. Holden

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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