Harl Vincent

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Harl Vincent (actually Harold Vincent Schoepflin ; born October 19, 1893 in Buffalo , New York ; died May 5, 1968 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American science fiction writer whose over 70 stories were featured in Pulp magazines published in the 1930s and 1940s.

Life

At the age of five, Vincent began drawing technical devices and said goodbye to the Lord Fauntleroy look and curls. He then followed his inclination to technical high school , then studied engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy , but dropped out because he married Ruth Hoff, had a family and had to earn money.

He first worked as a draftsman for Westinghouse , completed his studies in evening classes and then became an engineer who designed and tested steam turbines . Most recently he was an engineer in sales.

He wrote his first science fiction story, inspired by Hugo Gernsback's SF magazine Amazing Stories, and sent it in. The Golden Girl of Munan appeared there in the June 1928 issue. Encouraged by this success, he became a prolific and popular writer of Amazing Stories and other magazines, where his technical and scientific background proved helpful. Bleiler assessed Vincent's SF stories as “of varying quality, […] always intelligent, but often with traces of hasty work. Apparently, he often wrote with the market. "After 1940 did not write Vinent more, not until he was 73 years old the novel was published in The Doomsday Planet (1966) and several short stories, including Invader (1967) as The intruder appeared in 1979 in German translation.

Even after he stopped writing, Vincent remained interested in science fiction. The couple often spent the winters in California, and Vincent became a member of the SF Fandom there , joined the Count Dracula Society and the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society , and attended conventions .

Vincent had a son and a daughter from his marriage to Ruth Hoff. A heavy smoker all his life, he died in 1968 at the age of 75 from complications from emphysema .

bibliography

Novels

  • Red Twilight (1931, 1991 edition)
  • The Doomsday Planet (1966)

Collections

  • Harl Vincent Resurrected: The Astounding Stories of Harl Vincent (2011)
  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V10: the Pulp Writers: Harl Vincent (2013)

Short story series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

The Adventures of the Golden Girl of Munan
  • 1 The Golden Girl of Munan (1928)
  • 2 The War of the Planets (1929)
  • The Adventures of the Golden Girl of Munan (2013, collection)
Professor Timkin
  • 1 Venus Liberated (1929)
  • 2 Faster Than Light (1932)
Subterrania
  • 1 The Menace From Below (1929)
  • 2 The Return to Subterrania (1930)
Callisto
  • 1 The Explorers of Callisto (1930)
  • 2 Callisto at War (1930)
Carr Parker
  • 1 Vagabonds of Space (1930)
  • 2 Creatures of Vibration (1932)
  • Vagabonds of Space & Creatures of Vibration (2013, collection)
Purple and Gray
  • 1 Gray Denim (1930)
  • 2 Power (1932)
  • 3 Master Control (1940)
Ridge Coler
  • 1 Water-Bound World (1932)
  • 2 When the Comet Returned (1933)
  • 3 Lost City of Mars (1934)
Prowler
  • 1 Prowler of the Wastelands (1935)
  • 2 Return of the Prowler (1938)

Short stories

  • The Ambassador from Mars (1928)
  • The Seventh Generation (1929)
  • Barton's Island (1929)
  • The Yellow Air-Peril (1929)
  • Through the Air Tunnel (1929)
  • Microcosmic Buccaneers (1929)
  • The Colloidal Nemesis (1929)
  • Old Crompton's Secret (1930)
  • Before the Asteroids (1930)
  • The Terror of Air-Level Six (1930)
  • Silver Dome (1930)
  • Free Energy (1930)
  • Tanks Under the Sea (1931)
  • Terror Unseen (1931)
  • Invisible Ships (1931)
  • Too Many Boards (1931)
  • Beyond the Dark Nebula (1931)
  • The Moon Weed (1931)
  • The Copper-Clad World (1931)
  • A Matter of Ethics (1931)
  • Sky Cops (1931, with Charles Roy Cox)
  • Once in a Blue Moon (1932)
  • Vulcan's Workshop (1932)
  • Thia of the Drylands (1932)
  • Roadways of Mars (1932)
  • Wanderer of Infinity (1933)
  • Cavern of Thunders (1933)
  • Telegraph Plateau (1933)
  • Whisper of Death (1933)
  • Master of Dreams (1934)
  • Cat's Eye (1934)
  • Rex (1934)
  • Synthetic (1934)
  • The Barrier (1934)
  • Cosmic Rhythm (1934)
  • Energy (1935)
  • Valley of the Rukh (1935)
  • The Plane Compass (1935)
  • Parasite (1935)
  • The Challenge from Beyond (Part 4 of 5, 1935)
  • Prince Deru Returns (1938)
  • Newscast (1939)
  • The Devil Flower (1939)
  • The Morons (1939, online )
  • Lightning Strikes Once (1939)
  • Mystery of the Collapsing Skyscrapers (1939)
  • Power Plant (1939)
  • Neutral Vessel (1940)
  • High-Frequency War (1940)
  • Undersea Prisoner (1940)
  • Gravity Island (1940)
  • Deputy Correspondent (1940)
  • Life Inside a Wall (1940)
  • Trouble Shooter (1940)
  • Other World (1940)
  • Grave of the Achilles (1941)
  • Lunar Station (1941)
  • Voice from the Void (1942)
  • Invader (1967)
  • Lethal Planetoid (1969)
  • Space Storm (1969)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Harold Vincent Schoepflin  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical self-assessment in: Amazing Stories. Vol. 12, No. 7 (December 1938), p. 144.
  2. ^ "[...] an uneven writer, whose work, though always demonstrating intelligence, often showed marks of haste. It would seem obvious that he often wrote down for the market. "Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years. Kent State University Press, Kent, OH 1998, ISBN 0-585-23982-7 , p. 451.
personal data
SURNAME Vincent, Harl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoepflin, Harold Vincent (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 1968
Place of death Los Angeles , California