author
V. E. Thiessen
A byline from the pulp science-fiction era, this pen name is tied to fast-moving stories full of robots, space travel, and strange planets. The work published under it captures the breezy adventure and big ideas that made mid-century magazine SF so memorable.
3 Audiobooks
There Will Be School Tomorrow
by V. E. Thiessen
Asteroid Justice
by V. E. Thiessen
The Beast-Jewel of Mars
by V. E. Thiessen
About the author
V. E. Thiessen is a pseudonym associated with Leigh Brackett, the American writer and screenwriter best known for classic science fiction, crime fiction, and later Hollywood work. Reliable bibliographic sources list stories under the V. E. Thiessen name in the 1940s and 1950s, and reference works on Brackett note that she published some of her fiction under this pen name.
Works credited to V. E. Thiessen include "Asteroid Justice," "The Beast-Jewel of Mars," and "There Will Be School Tomorrow." These stories appeared during the great age of pulp and digest science fiction, when short fiction often mixed planetary adventure with sharp, imaginative twists.
Because V. E. Thiessen was a pen name rather than a separately documented public figure, detailed biographical information under that name is limited. For readers, that mystery is part of the appeal: the stories stand front and center, offering a lively snapshot of classic mid-century speculative fiction.