author

Henry Guth

A little-known pulp-era writer, he left behind a small body of science fiction that captures the wonder of mid-century magazine adventure. His stories imagine space travel and strange worlds with an energetic, old-school sense of possibility.

3 Audiobooks

Signal Red

Signal Red

by Henry Guth

Earthbound

Earthbound

by Henry Guth

Planet in Reverse

Planet in Reverse

by Henry Guth

About the author

Henry Guth is a science fiction writer best remembered today for stories published in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources confirm works including Earthbound, Planet in Reverse, and Signal Red, and show that his fiction appeared in the era of pulp magazine science fiction.

What survives in easily verifiable sources suggests a writer with a modest but vivid output rather than a heavily documented literary career. Because biographical information about him is scarce in the sources available here, much of his life remains unclear, but his fiction still offers a window into the imaginative, fast-moving style that helped define classic magazine SF.

For audiobook listeners, Guth is most appealing as a rediscovered voice from that period: direct, adventurous, and full of curiosity about technology, danger, and life beyond Earth.