Alfred Coppel

Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921–May 30, 2004) was an American author. He was born in Oakland, California. He began his long career in 1947 and became one of the most prolific pulp writers of the 1950s and 1960s, writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. In 1974 he had a bestseller with the suspense thriller "Thirty-Four East" about the Arab-Israeli conflict.Using the pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman, he wrote a galactic empire story called "The Rebel of Rhada". A similar story under his own name can be found in Brian Aldiss's collection "Galactic Empires". The 1960 story "Dark December" describes the aftermath of nuclear war.

Other Books

* "The Apocalypse Brigade", 1981, about the United States at war with global terrorism. [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0441025749/ "The Apocalypse Brigade" at Amazon.com] ]
* "The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan", 1983, is an alternative history depicting what could have happened if the United States and its allies had been forced to invade Japan in 1946, had the Trinity test of the Fat Man nuclear design tested on July 16, 1945 failed. This is based on the Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic United States battle plans for the invasion of Japan, which were rendered moot by Japan's surrender after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/015114978X/ "The Burning Mountain" at Amazon.com] ]

* In 1952, "The Dreamer" was published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" by Fanasty House, Inc. The story was reprinted in a collection anthology by editor Eric Berger in "Best Short Shorts", 1958. A short short story about Denby, a man wanting to be the first to orbit the moon.

External links

* [http://www.epilog.de/Person/C/Coo_Coq/Coppel_Alfred_1921.htm A biography of Coppel in German]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/alfred-coppel/rebel-of-rhada.htm Cover of "The Rebel of Rhada"]

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