SCHEER, K(arl)-H(erbert)

(1928-1991)

   German writer, active from 1948. He published prolifically - including much sf - in the circulating-library format in which many pulp adventures appeared in postwar GERMANY; none of this material has been translated. However, translations of his novellas in the weekly DIME-NOVEL SF format of PERRY RHODAN, the enormously successful series he cofoundedin 1961 with Walter Ernsting (who writes as Clark DARLTON), with whom K-HS had written collaborative works, are familiar to English-language readers. K-HS was for some time coordinator and chief author of the series.

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