author
Dick Hetschel
Known for a tiny but memorable slice of 1950s pulp science fiction, this writer left behind just a couple of stories that still circulate among vintage SF readers and listeners.
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Is That You Xeluchli?
by Dick Hetschel
About the author
Dick Hetschel is credited with two science-fiction short stories that remain easy to find today: Is That You Xeluchli?, first published in Planet Stories in March 1952, and First Stage: Moon, published in Worlds of If Science Fiction in December 1954.
The surviving record is very slim, and some sources even suggest that “Dick Hetschel” may have been a pseudonym rather than a fully documented personal name. What can be confirmed is that the work sits squarely in the magazine-driven science fiction world of the early 1950s, with stories centered on space travel, planetary observation, and big speculative ideas.
Because so little verified biographical information is available, the stories themselves are the clearest introduction to the author: brisk, imaginative pulp SF from the era when magazines were the main home of the genre.