Robert S. Richardson

Robert Shirley Richardson (April 22, 1902 – November 12, 1981) was an American astronomer, born in Kokomo, Indiana. He also published science fiction using the pseudonym Philip Latham.

Career

• "Philip Latham can support the suppositions that are the basis of his science fiction novels with accepted scientific theories. For he's an author who's in the business of "watching the stars." An astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories since 1931, he started writing for magazines in the early forties. His work won such wide respect that he now has a college textbook on astronomy to his credit. Movie producers as well as publishers find Mr. Latham's experience too good to pass up. He has given technical assistance to a number of studios on pictures such as Destination Moon, and he has written an article describing the work on the science fiction thriller When Worlds Collide. - from the back flap of the dust jacket on Five Against Venus.

Bibliography

• "N-Day", 1943 (as Philip Latham)
• The Xi Effect, 1950 (as Philip Latham)
• Five Against Venus, 1952 (as Philip Latham)
• Missing Men of Saturn, 1953 (as Philip Latham)
• Second Satellite, 1956
• The Rose Bowl-Pluto Hypothesis published in Orbit (anthology series)

External links

• Works by Robert S. Richardson at Project Gutenberg
• Robert S. Richardson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database