Albert dePina

Albert dePina was an American science fiction writer associated with the pulp-magazine boom of the 1940s and early 1950s. Reliable biographical detail is scarce, but bibliographic sources and later genre reference pieces consistently link him to a small body of space-opera fiction, including stories for Planet Stories and collaborations with fellow writer Henry Hasse.

He was never especially prolific, which is part of what makes him interesting. Across roughly a decade, he published only a handful of stories, yet they fit neatly into the classic pulp tradition: bold heroes, strange worlds, and high-stakes cosmic conflict. Titles such as The Star Guardsman, Alcatraz of the Starways, and Keeper of the Deathless Sleep show the kind of energetic, imaginative storytelling that still appeals to vintage science fiction readers.

Even his death date is reported inconsistently in modern secondary sources, though library and fan-reference listings commonly place it in 1957. What is clear is that dePina remains one of those intriguing, half-forgotten magazine-era writers whose work survives through reprints, archives, and devoted readers of classic sci-fi.