Arthur Kelvin Barnes was an American

United States

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 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author. Barnes wrote mostly for pulp magazine

Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...

s 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

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential...

. 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

Interplanetary Hunter

Interplanetary Hunter is a 1956 collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur K. Barnes. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1956 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Barnes' character Gerry Carlyle. The stories all originally appeared in the...

(1956) and Interplanetary Huntress (1956).

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