author
Keith Bennett
A little-known writer from the pulp science fiction era, remembered today for an imaginative space adventure that first appeared in Planet Stories in 1950. His work has lasted largely through archive projects and reprints that keep mid-century magazine fiction alive for new readers.
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The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears
by Keith Bennett
About the author
Keith Bennett is a scarce figure in the record, but his name survives through "The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears," a science fiction story originally published in Planet Stories in Spring 1950. The story was illustrated by Al McWilliams and has since been preserved by Project Gutenberg, helping modern readers rediscover it.
Because reliable biographical information about Bennett is very limited, most of what can be confirmed today comes from the publication history of that story rather than from personal details about his life. Even so, his work offers a small but vivid glimpse into the adventurous, fast-moving world of mid-century pulp science fiction.
For listeners who enjoy classic speculative fiction, Bennett's surviving work carries the flavor of its era: bold ideas, planetary wonder, and the sense that space travel might reveal something wonderfully strange just beyond the next horizon.