author
Charles Willard Diffin
1884–1966
Best remembered for energetic early space adventures, this pulp-era writer brought an engineer’s eye to sweeping interplanetary fiction. His stories helped shape the fast-moving style of science fiction magazines in the 1930s.
4 Audiobooks
Two Thousand Miles Below
by Charles Willard Diffin
Brood of the Dark Moon (A Sequel to "Dark Moon")
by Charles Willard Diffin
The Hammer of Thor
by Charles Willard Diffin
The Finding of Haldgren
by Charles Willard Diffin
About the author
Charles Willard Diffin was an American writer, engineer, and salesman born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on March 25, 1884. Sources agree that he graduated from the University of Buffalo with a degree in analytical chemistry, and that his working life outside fiction included engineering and airplane sales.
He is most closely associated with early science fiction, especially the pulp magazines of the late 1920s and 1930s. Reference sources describe him as one of the notable contributors to Astounding in its early years, and he is still remembered for stories such as Spawn of the Stars and The Pirate Planet. He also published work in other popular genres, including westerns and mysteries.
Diffin died on May 15, 1966. Although he is not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, his fiction remains part of the foundation of American pulp science fiction, with a reputation for brisk adventure, large-scale ideas, and a practical, technical flavor.