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Charles R. Tanner
1896–1974
A pulp-era science fiction and fantasy writer best remembered for the imaginative Tumithak stories, he helped shape early magazine SF with adventures full of underground worlds and alien menace.
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Mutiny in the Void
by Charles R. Tanner
About the author
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Charles Roland Tanner was an American science fiction and fantasy author whose work appeared mainly in the 1930s and early 1940s. Reference sources agree that his first published short story was "The Color of Space" in Science Wonder Stories in 1930, and they identify him as writing under forms including C. R. Tanner.
He is most closely associated with the Tumithak sequence, which began with "Tumithak of the Corridors" in Amazing Stories in 1932. The series earned a lasting place in genre history for its energetic blend of far-future adventure, underground survival, and conflict with alien conquerors from Venus.
Although he published a relatively small body of fiction, Tanner remained a remembered name among science fiction readers and bibliographers long after his most active years. He died on January 9, 1974, and is still appreciated today as one of the distinctive voices of early American speculative fiction.