Charles A. Stearns

Charles A. Stearns was an American science-fiction writer whose short fiction appeared during the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. Project Gutenberg lists a number of his stories, including B-12's Moon Glow, The Marooner, Color Blind, The Pluto Lamp, The Scamperers, Even Stephen, and Pastoral Affair.

Evidence from book and library listings shows that his fiction circulated in well-known genre venues and collections of the period, including Galaxy and later anthologies such as The Fifth Galaxy Reader. A modern reprint collection, The 56th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Charles A. Stearns, describes him as having published a little over three dozen stories, with about twenty-five of them being science fiction.

Very little easy-to-confirm biographical detail about his personal life appears in the sources I found. What does come through clearly is his place in the magazine era of science fiction: he was one of the writers who helped fill that world with clever, compact tales built for discovery, irony, and imagination.