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Alfred Coppel


(Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel)
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aka Robert Cham Gilman, A C Marin

Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel.

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.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Rhada (as by Robert Cham Gilman)
   1. The Warlock of Rhada (1969)
   2. The Rebel of Rhada (1969)
   3. The Navigator of Rhada (1969)
   4. The Starkahn of Rhada (1970)
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Goldenwing Cycle
   1. Glory (1993)
   2. Glory's War (1995)
   3. Glory's People (1996)
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Novels
   Hero Driver (1954)
   Night of Fire and Snow (1957)
   Dark December (1960)
   A Certainty of Love (1966)
   The Gate of Hell (1967)
   The Clash of Distant Thunder (1968) (as by A C Marin)
   Order of Battle (1968)
   A Little Time for Laughter (1969)
   Rise With the Wind (1969) (as by A C Marin)
   Between the Thunder and the Sun (1971)
   The Landlocked Man (1972)
   A Storm of Spears (1973) (as by A C Marin)
   Thirty-Four East (1974)
   The Dragon (1977)
   The Hastings Conspiracy (1980)
   The Apocalypse Brigade (1981)
   The Burning Mountain (1983)
   The Marburg Chronicles (1985)
   The Korean War (1985) (with Donald Knox)
   Fates Command Us (1986)
   Show Me a Hero (1987)
   A Land of Mirrors (1988)
   Wars and Winters (1993)
   The Eighth Day of the Week (1994)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Hills of Home (1956)
   Turnover Point (2009)
   The Invader (2011)
   The Peacemaker (2011)
   Turning Point (2011)
   The Rebel of Valkyr (2013)
   The Last Two Alive! (2013)
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