The Hills of Home

by Alfred Coppel

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman.

Genres: Science Fiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2007

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

Reviews

[Phil Giunta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Colonel Kimball, a man with no family but immense imagination, is determined to explore Mars alone. As a child, he imagined himself fighting alongside John Carter of Mars as in the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. Now, he finds himself alone on the red planet in search of the hills of home.

[Forked Radish · Rating 2 out of 5]

“The words become the fact. the therapy the aim.” Right on!

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful journey, scifi, short story.

[Hassan Mallah · Rating 2 out of 5]

A stroy about Colonel Kimball while his search in the hills on a planet far away