Clark Darlton
Clark Darlton
Clark Darlton was the main pen name of Walter Ernsting (1920-2005), a German science fiction writer. Because German publishers of the 1950s doubted a German could write the genre, he presented his books as translations of a fictional British author.
After serving in the Wehrmacht and spending years as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, he worked as a translator and editor, co-founded the Science Fiction Club Deutschland in 1955, and co-created the Perry Rhodan series, writing for it until 1992. The English-language paperbacks credited to Clark Darlton are mostly Perry Rhodan novels.
He also wrote as Fred McPatterson.
