author
Harry Cord
Best known for a fast-paced planetary adventure from the pulp era, this elusive writer is remembered today mainly through a collaboration on a classic Mars story. Very little personal information seems to have survived, which adds a bit of mystery to the name behind the tale.
1 Audiobook
Meteor-Men of Mars
by Harry Cord, Otis Adelbert Kline
About the author
Harry Cord is a little-documented science fiction writer associated with Meteor-Men of Mars, a novel first published in Planet Stories in 1942. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources consistently connect the book with both Harry Cord and Otis Adelbert Kline, suggesting that Cord is chiefly known through that collaboration.
Beyond that work, confirmed biographical details are scarce. Major reference sources available here list the writing, but offer little solid information about Cord's life, background, or broader career. Because the record is so thin, it is safest to remember Harry Cord as one of those half-hidden pulp-era names whose reputation rests on a single energetic interplanetary adventure.
The portrait image below is of Otis Adelbert Kline, Cord's better-documented co-author, because a verified portrait of Harry Cord could not be confidently confirmed from the sources reviewed.