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William Conover

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.

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The Soul Eaters

The Soul Eaters

by William Conover

About the author

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.