author
Chas. A. Stopher
A mid-20th-century science fiction writer best remembered for the short story Solar Stiff, preserved today through Project Gutenberg and audiobook archives. Very little biographical information appears to survive online, which gives the work an extra air of pulp-era mystery.
1 Audiobook
Solar Stiff
by Chas. A. Stopher
About the author
Chas. A. Stopher is an obscure science fiction author whose name remains in circulation mainly because of Solar Stiff, a short work that has been preserved by Project Gutenberg and recorded by LibriVox.
Reliable biographical details about Stopher are scarce in the sources available online. No well-established reference entry or clearly documented life history was easy to confirm, so it is safest to describe Stopher as a little-known author from the classic magazine-era tradition of science fiction rather than make stronger claims.
That scarcity of background can be part of the appeal: the surviving story offers a glimpse of the imaginative, adventurous side of older pulp science fiction, even when the writer behind it has largely slipped out of the historical record.