author
William Oberfield
A largely forgotten pulp-era science fiction writer, this author published imaginative stories in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including adventures first seen in Planet Stories. His surviving work leans into classic space-opera thrills while hinting at the anxieties and wonder of early magazine science fiction.
4 Audiobooks
The Enormous Word
by William Oberfield
Escape From Pluto
by William Oberfield
They Reached for the Moon
by William Oberfield
Poison Planet
by William Oberfield
About the author
Very little verified biographical information appears to be publicly available about this writer, but bibliographic records and public-domain archives show that he published speculative fiction during the pulp-magazine era. His known stories include Escape from Pluto, The Enormous Word, They Reached for the Moon, and Poison Planet.
Those works were published between 1947 and 1951, with several appearing in Planet Stories, a magazine closely associated with adventurous, fast-moving science fiction. That places him among the many mid-century authors whose fiction survived more clearly than their personal history.
Because reliable personal details are scarce, the best way to approach his work is through the stories themselves: energetic planetary adventures, strange worlds, and the sense of possibility that defined classic pulp SF. For listeners who enjoy rediscovering overlooked writers from science fiction's magazine age, his small body of work has real period charm.