Robert W. Krepps

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 11, 1919, Robert Wilson Krepps was an American author whose fiction appeared in several different forms across the mid-20th century. He died in Pinellas, Florida, on January 24, 1980.

Science fiction readers often know him through the pen name Geoff St. Reynard. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, he began publishing genre work in the 1940s and became a frequent contributor to magazines such as Fantastic Adventures, Imagination, and Imaginative Tales. His stories included works later collected or reissued as Beware, the Usurpers!, The Buttoned Sky, and The Giants from Outer Space.

Outside science fiction, he also wrote adventure tales, westerns, historical novels, and several novelizations of films. That range helps explain why his bibliography feels so varied: he was a working storyteller with a knack for vivid premises and brisk, readable plots.