Kurt Mahr

Kurt Mahr was the pen name of Klaus Mahn (8 March 1934 - 27 June 1993), a German-born physicist and science fiction writer. He studied civil engineering and then physics, moved to the United States, and worked on space programme and computer projects. One of the first authors of the Perry Rhodan series, he wrote a large number of its novels from 1961 until his death, usually with a hard-science focus, and from 1985 co-wrote the series' guiding outlines with Ernst Vlcek. He also published science fiction outside the series.