Paul W. Fairman

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Paul Warren Fairman (born August 22, 1909 in Missouri ; died October 1977 in Newark , New Jersey ) was an American writer and editor. In addition to science fiction and horror literature, he also wrote crime fiction and erotic literature .

Life

Fairman began publishing short stories in the late 1940s, his first SF story, No Teeth for the Tiger , appeared in Amazing Stories in 1950 . In the following years he wrote numerous novels and short stories, some under his own name, some under various pseudonyms , including publisher pseudonyms . The name Ivar Jorgensen frequently used by him was originally a personal pseudonym that became the publishing pseudonym of Ziff Davis . The similar pseudonym Ivar Jorgenson was used by Robert Silverberg . He served various genres and also wrote several tie-ins and novel versions . Some of his stories were made into films or were the basis for television series episodes, including an episode of Twilight Zone . He wrote several SF novels for young people under the name Lester del Reys and based on its concept. In addition, Fairman is the author of a number of erotic novels and under the pseudonym FW Paul wrote several novels in the Man from STUD series , a mixture of agent and erotic novels .

From March to November 1952 he was the first editor of SF magazine If , then moved to Ziff Davis. In June 1954 he left the publisher and worked as a freelance writer for a while, only to return to Ziff Davis in December 1955, where he was editor of the magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic from May 1956 to September 1958 . He was then editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine until August 1963 . In 1957 he started the magazines Dream World and Pen Pal , which he had to discontinue after three and two issues respectively

bibliography

Novels
  • The Glass Ladder (1950)
  • Invasion From the Deep (1951)
  • The Joy Wheel (1954)
  • The Golden Ape (1959, as Adam Chase with Milton Lesser, also as Quest of the Golden Ape )
  • Rest in Agony (1963, as Ivar Jorgensen, also as The Diabolist , 1972)
  • Ten From Infinity (1963, also as The Deadly Sky , 1971, and Ten Deadly Men , 1976)
  • The World Grabbers (1964, tie-in for the television series One Step Beyond )
  • City Under the Sea (1965, novel version of the film of the same name, German title Stadt unter dem Meer )
  • A Study in Terror (1966, as Ellery Queen with Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederick Dannay )
  • Search for a Dead Nympho (1967)
  • The Forgetful Robot (1968)
  • I, the Machine (1968)
  • Whom the Gods Would Slay (1968, as Ivar Jorgensen)
  • The Cover Girls (1970)
  • Pattern for Destruction (1970)
  • To Catch a Crooked Girl (1971)
  • The Deadly Sky (1971, as Ivar Jorgensen)
  • The Doomsday Exhibit (1971)
  • That Girl (1971)
  • Love American Style (1971)
  • The Frankenstein Wheel (1972)
    • German: Frankenstein's legacy . Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 45), 1977.
  • Bridget Loves Bernie (1972)
  • Five Knucklebones ( children's book, 1972)
  • The Ghost of Graveyard Hill (1972)
  • Terror by Night (1972)
  • Junior Bonner (1972)
  • Coffy (1973, novel version of a script)
  • The Girl With Something Extra (1973)

with Lester del Rey under his name:

  • The Runaway Robot (1965)
    • English: the innocent robot. Pabel (Utopia Future # 297), 1967.
  • Siege Perilous (1966, also as The Man Without a Planet , 1969)
  • Tunnel Through Time (1966)
  • The Scheme of Things (1966)
  • Prisoners of Space (1967)

The Man from STUD series ( Sexpionage series, as FW Paul)

  • 1 Sock It To Me, Zombie (1968)
  • 2 The Solid Gold Screw (1968)
  • 3 Three For An Orgy (1968)
  • 4 The Orgy At Madame Dracula’s (1968)
  • 5 Tool Of The Trade (1969)
  • 6 Rape Is A No-No (1969)
  • 7 The Planned Parenthood Caper (1969)
  • 8 The Lay Of The Land (1969)
  • 9 The Girl With The Polka-Dot Box (1969)
  • 10 King On Queen (1971)
  • The Man From STUD vs. The Mafia (collective edition, 1971)
Short stories
  • Late Rain (1947)
  • The Body of Madelon Spain (1947)
  • Hallowed Be the Name (1947)
  • No Hero Stuff (1947)
  • The Guns of God (1947)
  • Bullets For Breakfast (1948)
  • The Lady and the Lynch Mob (1948)
  • Nesters Die Hard (1948)
  • Dead Man's Gold (1948)
  • The Memoirs of John Shevlin - The West's Greatest Detective: The Case of the O'Henry Ending (1949)
  • Devil on the Mountain (1949)
  • The Broken Doll (1950)
  • No Teeth for the Tiger (1950)
  • Never Trust a Martian! (1951)
  • Whom the Gods Would Slay (1951, as Ivar Jorgensen)
  • Nine Worlds West (1951, as Clee Garson)
  • Invasion from the Deep (1951)
  • Witness for the Defense (1951)
  • The Man with the Clutching Hand (1951)
  • The Terrible Puppets (1951)
  • The Man Who Stopped at Nothing (1951)
  • Proud Asteroid (1951)
  • Deadly Cargo (1951)
  • The Missing Symbol (1952, as Ivar Jorgensen)
  • Rest in Agony (1952, as Ivar Jorgensen)
  • The Secret of Gallows Hill (1952)
  • A Child Is Missing (1952)
  • Brothers Beyond the Void (1952)
  • Strange Blood (1952)
  • The Dog with the Weird Tale (1952)
  • The Jack of Planets (1952)
  • Let's Have a Little Reverence (1952)
  • "Someday They'll Give Us Guns" (1952)
  • The Woman in Skin 13 (1952)
  • The Third Ear (1952)
  • The Girl Who Loved Death (1952)
  • Deadly City (1953, as Ivar Jorgensen, filmed as Target Earth , 1954)
  • Side Road to Glory (1953, as Robert Eggert Lee)
  • The Cosmic Frame (1955, based on the film Invasion of the Saucer Men , also as Invasion of the Hell Creatures , 1957, and for the television film Attack of the Eye Creatures , 1965)
  • Beyond the Black Horizon (1955)
  • The Smashers (1955)
  • One Man to Kill (1955)
  • This Is My Son (1955)
  • The Man in the Ice Box (1955)
  • All Walls Were Mist (1955)
  • The Beasts of the Void (1956)
  • Black Blockade (1956)
  • Secret of the Martians (1956)
  • The Treasure is Mine! (1956)
  • The Beasts in the Void (1956)
  • Dalrymple's Equation (1956)
  • Jason and the Maker (1956)
  • Traitor's Choice (1956)
  • "I'll Think You Dead!" (1956)
  • The Body Hunters (1959)
    • German: Die Menschenjäger. In: Larry T. Shaw (Ed.): Terror. Heyne SF&F # 960, 1972.
  • The World Burners (1959)
  • Give Me My Body! (1959)
  • A Great Night in the Heavens (1959)
  • Culture for the Planets (1968)
  • Not Born to Greatness (1968)
  • Delenda Est Carthago (1968)
  • Interlude in the Desert (1968)
  • Robots Should Stick Together (1968)
  • The Pit (1968)
  • The Minefield (1968)
  • Mastermind of Zark (1968)
  • Phantoms of Zark (1968)
  • The Brown Package (1968)
  • Long Hop (1968)
  • The Gallant Lady (1968)
  • The Space Museum (1968)
  • Those Remarkable Ravencrafts (1968)
  • Lost in a Junkyard (1968)
Essays
  • They Write ... (1952)
  • Introducing the Author: Paul W. Fairman (1956)
  • A New Kind of Fiction (1957)
  • Of Men and Dreams (1957)
  • It Began With a Letter from the Russians (1958)
  • Jehovah's Witnesses Aren't Science Fiction (1958)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , 1909 is the correct year of birth. Otherwise 1916 is also given.
  2. ↑ Reclam's science fiction guide. Stuttgart 1982, p. 149.
  3. ↑ People Are Alike All Over , 1960, season 1, episode 25, German title: Samuel Conrad and the journey to Mars
personal data
SURNAME Fairman, Paul W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fairman, Paul Warren (full name); Fairman, Paul (alternative spelling); Fairman, PW (alternative spelling); Chase, Adam (pseudonym); Garson, Clee (pseudonym); Jarvis, EK (pseudonym); Jorgensen, Ivar (pseudonym); Lee, Robert (pen name); Lohrman, Paul (pseudonym); Paul, FW (pseudonym); Queen, Ellery (pseudonym); Storm, Mallory (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 1977
Place of death Newark , New Jersey