Albert dePina

Born on December 25, 1907, Albert dePina was an American science fiction writer whose surviving work comes from the pulp-magazine era. Very little biographical information about him seems to have been preserved, which gives his career a certain mystery.

What is known is that he wrote a handful of stories that appeared in early science fiction magazines, and that his fiction remained of interest to later readers of classic genre history. One of his best-known stories, Minions of the Crystal Sphere, was even noted decades later in connection with the Retro Hugo Awards.

DePina died in 1957. Though he never became a household name, his stories remain part of the rich, imaginative world of early magazine science fiction.