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Wells, Hal K

(1899-1979) US author, in active service during World War One, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Brass Key" in Weird Tales for February 1929. Much of his sf work – like Zehru of Xollar (February 1932 Astounding; 2008 ebook) – was Space Opera for Pulp journals, with a tendency to the lurid. Some of his better work has been assembled as Anthology of Sci-Fi V9: The Pulp Writers: Hal K Wells (coll 2013). His novel, "Blood on the Sun" (May 1942 Startling Stories), has not been published in book form. [JC]

Harold Kerton Wells

born Little Hocking, Ohio: September 1899

died Torrance, California: 12 December 1979

works

collections and stories (selected)

• Zehru of Xollar (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [story: ebook: first appeared February 1932 Astounding: na/]
• The Cavern of the Shining Ones (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2008) [novelette: ebook: first appeared November 1932 Astounding: na/]
• Devi Crystals of Arret (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [novelette: ebook: first appeared September 1931 Astounding: na/]
• Anthology of Sci-Fi V9: The Pulp Writers: Hal K Wells (no place given, USA: Spastic Cat Press, 2013) [coll: pb/]

links

• Hal K Wells at Tellers of Weird Tales
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 06:31 am on 10 December 2024.
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