Harl Vincent

Born Harold Vincent Schoepflin in 1893, he wrote as Harl Vincent and built a steady reputation in the classic pulp era. He was an American mechanical engineer as well as a science-fiction writer, and his fiction appeared regularly in magazines such as Amazing and Astounding.

His work is closely tied to the fast-moving, idea-rich style of early magazine science fiction: bold premises, distant worlds, and scientific speculation meant to thrill readers. Reference sources on the field note that he published frequently up to World War II, then returned late in life with a few more stories and the novel The Doomsday Planet.

He died in 1968, but his name still turns up wherever readers explore the foundations of pulp science fiction and the writers who helped define its sense of wonder.