author
H. F. Cente
Best known in classic pulp circles as a pen name tied to Ross Rocklynne, this author name appears on the science-fiction story "Sales Talk," a sharp little tale from the magazine era of speculative fiction.
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Sales Talk
by H. F. Cente
About the author
H. F. Cente is a pseudonym associated with Ross Louis Rocklin (1913–1988), the American science-fiction writer better known as Ross Rocklynne. Bibliographic sources including the Internet Speculative Fiction Database list H. F. Cente among Rocklin’s alternate names, and archival notes connect that byline specifically to the story Sales Talk.
Rocklynne was active in the Golden Age of science fiction and published widely in pulp magazines. Under the H. F. Cente name, he seems to have used a slightly different label for work that still carried the quick, idea-driven energy of mid-century magazine fiction.
Because reliable biographical information is filed mainly under Ross Rocklynne rather than H. F. Cente, most of what can be confidently said about this byline comes from bibliographic and archival records. A portrait is therefore provided from Rocklynne’s author page, which is the strongest confirmed identification available.