author
Donald Colvin
A little-known science fiction writer from the early 1950s, remembered today through a small cluster of pulp-era stories that have been preserved online. His surviving work has the brisk, idea-driven feel of classic magazine science fiction.
2 Audiobooks
Half past Alligator
by Donald Colvin
The Celestial Hammerlock
by Donald Colvin
About the author
Donald Colvin appears to have been an American science fiction writer active in the early 1950s. Public-domain and audiobook catalog sources consistently credit him with fiction from that period, and LibriVox lists him as flourishing in 1953.
His name remains in circulation largely because several stories have been preserved by Project Gutenberg and related archives, including Half Past Alligator and The Celestial Hammerlock. Those titles suggest the kind of lively, adventurous storytelling associated with mid-century magazine SF.
Very little confirmed biographical detail seems to be readily available online beyond his publication record. What can be said with confidence is that his work survives because readers and volunteers have continued to archive, digitize, and narrate it for new audiences.