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Best known today for the pulp science-fiction tale The Soul Eaters, this elusive writer left behind a fast-moving adventure full of space pirates, castaways, and danger in the void. Very little biographical information seems to have survived, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.

by William Conover
William Conover is a little-documented science-fiction author associated with The Soul Eaters, a story first published in Planet Stories in Fall 1944 and now available through Project Gutenberg. The novel follows Captain Dennis Brooke through a classic mid-century space adventure involving pirates, a rogue planet, and a threat beyond ordinary weapons.
Reliable biographical details about Conover are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Project Gutenberg lists only this work under his name, and I was not able to verify a fuller author biography from dependable reference sources.
That makes Conover one of those intriguing pulp-era figures whose fiction has outlasted the paper magazines it first appeared in. For listeners who enjoy vintage science fiction, his surviving work offers a lively snapshot of 1940s magazine storytelling.