Carl Selwyn

Carl Selwyn was the pen name of Carl Selwyn Pugh Jr., a pulp-era science fiction writer remembered for a brief but productive run in early genre magazines. Reliable web sources connect him especially with Planet Stories, where he quickly became one of the more active contributors around 1940.

His fiction leaned toward classic space adventure: planets, patrols, alien threats, and high-stakes rebellion. Works available today include Revolt on the Earth-Star, Exiles of the Three Red Moons, Venus Has Green Eyes, Ice Planet, Space Bat, The Citadel of Death, and Earth Is Missing!, many of which can now be found in public-domain editions.

The surviving biographical record appears to be quite thin, which is common for many pulp writers of the period. One genre-history source says he grew up on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, later served as a sergeant in World War II, and eventually worked in Hollywood, but the clearest picture that remains is of a writer who flashed brightly in vintage science fiction magazines and left behind a compact shelf of lively interplanetary adventures.