author
Bjarne Kirchhoff
Best known for a single hard-to-forget science-fiction story from the pulp era, this elusive author leaves behind more mystery than biography. What survives is a tense tale of survival, ethics, and cosmic decision-making that still feels sharp today.
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Day of Wrath
by Bjarne Kirchhoff
About the author
Bjarne Kirchhoff is a very obscure science-fiction author, and reliable biographical details are hard to confirm. The clearest information available is that Kirchhoff wrote "Day of Wrath," a short science-fiction work published in Planet Stories in Summer 1948.
That story has had an unusually long afterlife for such a little-documented writer. It is listed by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database as a 1948 short fiction publication, and Project Gutenberg currently indexes Kirchhoff with "Day of Wrath" as the only title under that name.
Because so little verified personal information is readily available, Kirchhoff stands out as one of those pulp-era authors known almost entirely through the work itself. For readers, that gives "Day of Wrath" an added curiosity: it is not just a vintage space-age story, but also the surviving trace of a writer who remains largely hidden from view.