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Charles Schafhauser

A mid-century science fiction writer remembered for the short novel A Gleeb for Earth, he published imaginative, pulp-era work that later found new readers through digital archives.

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A Gleeb for Earth

by Charles Schafhauser

About the author

Charles Schafhauser is a science fiction author best known for A Gleeb for Earth, a work that has been preserved and republished through Project Gutenberg. The surviving public record available here is quite limited, which suggests he is one of those genre writers whose fiction outlasted the biographical details.

His work is associated with classic magazine-era science fiction, the kind of storytelling built on strange ideas, brisk pacing, and a sense of wonder. Modern catalog and reader sites also connect his name with anthologized speculative fiction, showing that his stories continued to circulate beyond their original publication.

Because reliable biographical information was scarce in the sources I could confirm, it is safer to let the fiction speak louder than the legend in this case.