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William Conover
Best known for a single surviving science-fiction adventure, this elusive pulp-era writer left behind a story full of rogue planets, space pirates, and high-stakes danger. Very little biographical information appears to have survived, which gives the work an extra layer of mystery.
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The Soul Eaters
by William Conover
About the author
William Conover is a little-documented author associated with classic pulp science fiction. The clearest confirmed record is The Soul Eaters, a novella that appeared in Planet Stories in Fall 1944 and is now available through Project Gutenberg.
Based on the available records, that story is the only readily verified work currently listed for him in major public-domain and bibliographic sources. The tale is a fast-moving space adventure, following Captain Dennis Brooke through a mission involving pirates, a rogue planet, and a strange life-draining menace.
Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, not much can be said with confidence about Conover's life beyond his authorship of that story. Still, for readers who enjoy the atmosphere of mid-century magazine science fiction, his surviving work offers a compact glimpse into the imagination and excitement of the pulp era.