author
William Oberfield
A little-known voice from mid-century pulp science fiction, this author left behind a small cluster of imaginative stories filled with space travel, danger, and big speculative ideas. His work still turns up in public-domain archives and audio adaptations, giving modern listeners a glimpse of classic magazine-era sci-fi.
4 Audiobooks
The Enormous Word
by William Oberfield
Escape From Pluto
by William Oberfield
Poison Planet
by William Oberfield
They Reached for the Moon
by William Oberfield
About the author
William Oberfield is a fairly obscure science fiction writer whose known body of work appears to be small but memorable. Public-domain and catalog records consistently connect him with stories including Escape From Pluto, Poison Planet, The Enormous Word, and They Reached for the Moon, published in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
He is associated with the classic pulp-magazine world, especially Planet Stories and Imagination. Some library and reading archives also note that he wrote poetry, essays, and other speculative fiction, suggesting a wider interest in the genre than his surviving fiction alone might show.
Very little verified biographical information about his personal life is easy to confirm from reliable online sources, which gives his work an added air of mystery. What remains clear is that his stories have endured through Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, and other revival efforts, where new readers and listeners continue to discover his vintage, idea-driven science fiction.