author
Dick Hetschel
A mid-century science fiction writer whose short stories still circulate through public-domain and audiobook collections, with tales that lean into classic space-age ideas and pulp-era imagination.
1 Audiobook
Is That You Xeluchli?
by Dick Hetschel
About the author
Dick Hetschel is credited as the author of science fiction short stories in LibriVox's author listing, and Project Gutenberg has public-domain editions of his work available to readers and listeners.
His known titles include First Stage: Moon and Is That You, Xeluchli?, which points to a body of work rooted in 1950s-style speculative fiction. Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce online, so most available information focuses on the stories themselves rather than on the person behind them.
That relative mystery can be part of the appeal: Hetschel survives mainly through the fiction, where the era's fascination with space travel, strange encounters, and big scientific possibilities is front and center.