author
William Conover
Best known for the pulp science-fiction story The Soul Eaters, this elusive mid-20th-century writer left behind a compact but memorable trail of interplanetary adventure. His work captures the fast-moving, high-stakes spirit of classic magazine science fiction.
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The Soul Eaters
by William Conover
About the author
Little verified biographical information about William Conover appears to be readily available online, but his name survives through The Soul Eaters, a science-fiction adventure first published in Planet Stories in Fall 1944 and now available through Project Gutenberg.
That story places him squarely in the world of pulp-era speculative fiction, where writers built vivid planetary settings, dangerous missions, and larger-than-life conflicts for magazine readers. Even with only a small public record, Conover's work reflects the brisk storytelling and imaginative sweep that defined the genre at the time.
For readers who enjoy vintage science fiction, William Conover is an intriguing figure precisely because so little is known for certain: the story remains, the author mostly stays in the shadows, and that gives his surviving fiction an added sense of mystery.