Lester del Rey

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Lester del Rey (* 2. June 1915 in Clydesdale , Minnesota ; † 10. May 1993 in New York ) was an US -American science fiction - writer and editor. He always claimed that his full name was Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Verdes , but his real name is Leonard Knapp .

Life

Del Rey was discovered and promoted by John W. Campbell in 1938 . He wrote under numerous pseudonyms for almost all known pulp magazines (as Charles Satterfield , Edson McCann , John Alvarez , Marion Henry , Philip James , Philip St. John , Erik Van Lhin , Kenneth Wright , Wade Kaempfert , Ramon F. Alvarez-del Rey and Cameron Hall ). Whenever his stories didn't sell well, he used to work as a cook in a fast-food restaurant. After marrying Helen Schlaz in 1945, he turned completely to writing and also worked as an editor and office manager for Scott Meredith's literary agency. Later he was the editor of several magazines at the same time, using his various pseudonyms.

He was responsible for launching titles such as Space SF , Fantasy Fiction , Science Fiction Adventures (as Philip St. John), Rocket Stories (as Wade Kaempfert), and Fantasy Fiction (as Cameron Hall) in 1952 and 1953 . In 1968 he became co-editor of Galaxy magazine and in the 1970s took over the SF editorial team of Ballantine Books together with his new wife Judy-Lynn del Rey . The two were so successful there that the SF series appeared from 1977 under the new imprint "Del Rey Books". The first book of the new label was The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks , today it publishes manga as well as SF and Fantasy .

Del Rey received the EE Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (also known as the Skylark Award ) in 1972 and the Balrog Special Award in 1985 , an award for which Locus magazine polled its readers for the most popular fantasy author. 1990 del Rey was awarded the Grand Master Award of SFWA honored.

Works

Jim Stanley series
  • Step To the Stars (1954)
  • Mission To the Moon (1956)
  • Moon of Mutiny (1961)
Single novels
  • Rocket Jockey (1952)
    • English: Hunt of the astronauts. AWA (Astron Romane), 1954. Moewig ( Terra # 240), 1962.
  • Marooned on Mars (1951)
    • German: Under the spell of the Martian world. AWA (Astron Romane), 1955. Moewig (Terra # 203), 1961.
  • The Wind between the Worlds (1951)
  • as Philip St. John: Rocket Jockey (1952)
    • English: Hunt of the astronauts. AWA-Verlag, 1954.
  • Attack from Atlantis (1953)
  • as Kenneth Wright: The Mysterious Planet (1953)
    • English: The Enigmatic Planet X. AWA (Astron Romane), 1954. Moewig (Terra # 167), 1961.
  • as Eric van Lhin: Battle on Mercury (1953)
    • English: The electrids of Mercury. AWA (Astron Library), 1957. Moewig (Terra # 192), 1961.
  • as Philip St. John: Rockets to Nowhere (1954)
  • with Frederik Pohl as Edson McCann: Preferred Risk (1955)
    • German: The great risk. Semrau (Der Weltraumfahrer # 5), 1959. Also as: The welfare company . Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction # 3519), ISBN 3-8118-3519-X , 1981.
  • Nerves (1956)
    • German: Atomalarm. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 59), 1957. A matter of nerves . Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22032, 1981, ISBN 3-404-22032-3 .
  • as Eric van Lhin: Police Your Planet (1956)
    • English: Assassination attempt on Mars. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 85), 1958.
  • The Cave of Spears (1957)
  • Day of the Giants (1959)
  • Tunnel Through Time (1960)
  • The Eleventh Commandment (1962)
    • German: The eleventh commandment. Moewig Science Fiction # 3511, 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3511-4 .
  • Outpost of Jupiter (1963)
    • English: Epidemic on Ganymede. Moewig (Terra # 543), 1967.
  • Badge of Infamy (1963)
  • The Runaway Robot (1965)
    • English: the innocent robot. Pabel (Utopia Future # 297), 1967.
  • The Infinite Worlds of Maybe (1966)
    • German: The world jumpers. Moewig (Terra Nova # 8), 1968.
  • Rocket from Infinity (1966)
  • The Scheme of Things (1966)
  • Victories Perilous (1966)
  • Prisoners of Space (1968)
  • The Man without a Planet (1969)
  • Pstalemate (1971)
  • The Sky Is Falling (1973)
  • Weeping May Tarry (1978) (with Raymond F. Jones )
Story collections
  • And Some Were Human (1948)
  • Robots and Changelings (1958)
  • Mortals and Monsters (1965)
  • Gods and Golems (1973)
  • Early Del Rey (1975)
  • The Early Del Rey Volume 2 (1976)
  • The Best of Lester Del Rey (1978)
    • English: The best stories from Lester del Rey. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6707), 1980, ISBN 3-8118-6707-5 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lester del Rey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is what his sister announced, cf. Locus , Jan 8, 2008. See also: Brian M. Stableford , John Clute : del Rey, Lester. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 3rd edition (online edition), version dated September 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME del Rey, Lester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knapp, Leonard (real name); Del Rey y de los Verdes, Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez (full name); Satterfield, Charles (pen name); McCann, Edson (pseudonym); Alvarez, John (pseudonym); Henry, Marion (pseudonym); James, Philip (pseudonym); St. John, Philip (pseudonym); Van Lhin, Erik (pseudonym); Wright, Kenneth (pen name); Kaempfert, Wade (pseudonym); Alvarez-del Rey, Ramon F. (pseudonym); Hall, Cameron (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Clydesdale
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1993
Place of death new York