Arthur K Barnes


USA flag (1911 - 1969)

aka Kelvin Kent

Arthur K. Barnes (1911-1969) was an American science fiction author. Barnes wrote mostly for pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Barnes was most noted for his vivid and believable portrayals of alien life. As such, he is compared to Stanley G. Weinbaum. Before Barnes (and Weinbaum), SF writers usually portrayed aliens as earth-like monsters, with little originality.

Barnes wrote a series of stories about "interplanetary hunters" Tommy Strike and Gerry Carlyle, collected in the books, Interplanetary Hunter (1956) and Interplanetary Huntress (1956).
 
 
Series
Pete Manx (as by Kelvin Kent)
   World's Pharaoh (1939)
   Man About Time (1940)
   The Comedy of Eras (1940)
   Hercules Muscles In (1941)
   Dames Is Poison (1942)
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Novels
   Swing Your Lady (1944) (as by Kelvin Kent)
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Collections
   Interplanetary Hunter (1956)
     aka Interplanetary Huntress
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Forgotten Future (1941)
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