Sturgis, Melvin
Entry updated 23 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with The Gift (November 1951 Imagination; 2021). He also wrote as Mel Sturgis and twice collaborated with Les Cole (1926-2019) under the joint pseudonym Colin Sturgis. His one sf novel was Invaders on the Moon (1970) with Kris Neville, which the publishers Belmont Books credited only to Neville despite the latter's protests. The tale features a threatening Alien base on our Moon and attempts to neutralize or destroy it; Psi Powers come into play. [DRL]
Melvin Sturgis
born
works
- Invaders on the Moon (New York: Belmont Books, 1970) with Kris Neville [Sturgis was left uncredited through a publishing decision against which Neville protested: pb/uncredited]
collections and stories
- The Unprotected Species (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [ebook: first appeared September 1956 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- The Gift (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2021) [ebook: first appeared November 1951 Imagination: na/]
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