Arthur Kelvin Barnes (6 December 1909 – 11 March 1969) was an American

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. 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. He was a member of the Mañana Literary Society."The order of Martha of Bethany", Joe R. Christopher, ''

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/ref> Several stories by Barnes were collaborations with the author Henry Kuttner, including several of the ''Hollywood on the Moon'', ''Pete Manx'', and ''Gerry Carlyle'' series of stories. Barnes wrote a series of stories about "interplanetary hunters" Tommy Strike and Gerry Carlyle, collected in the books '' Interplanetary Hunter'' (1956) and ''Interplanetary Huntress'' (2007).

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*''Lord of the Lightning'',

Wonder Stories ''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stor ...

, (December, 1931) *''Green Hell'' (1937) *'' Interplanetary Hunter'' (1956) *''Interplanetary Huntress'' (1956) *''The Interplanetary Huntress Returns'' *''The Interplanetary Huntress' Last Case'' *''Hollywood on the Moon'' *''Man about Time'' *''Pete Manx, Time Troubler'' *''The Dual World'' *''Trouble on Titan''

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