Wallace West

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Wallace George West (born May 22, 1900 in Walnut Hills , Kentucky ; died March 8, 1980 in Shelby , Michigan ) was an American science fiction and horror writer.

Life

West's father was Colonel William West, his mother Anna Pauline, née Scott. He studied at Butler University in Indianapolis , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1924 and graduated there in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in law from the Indiana Law School . After graduating, he opened a law firm with a partner , but soon gave up and worked in various professions, including farmer and hairdresser. Eventually he turned to journalism and worked for United Press in South America, was a news editor for ABC , NBC and Mutual, and in public relations for Paramount Pictures and CBS . During World War II, he worked as assistant to the head of broadcasting censorship in the US Office of Censorship . From 1947 on he was an air and water pollution expert at the American Petroleum Institute , and from 1968 he served as an air pollution advisor to the Air Pollution Control Administration of the US Public Health Service .

West's first publication was Static in the September issue of Sea Stories Magazine , his first contribution to weird fiction was the werewolf story Loup-Garou , published in Weird Tales in October 1927 , and his first science fiction story was The Last Man in Amazing in February 1929. Over the next five decades, West wrote over 60 short stories and six novels, a significant portion of which are fix-ups of previously published short stories. Two of West's stories are also available in German translation.

He also wrote two tie-ins to the cartoon series Betty Boop and a novelization for the Paramount film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland from 1933, which in the book series of the Big Little Books published, as well as some non-fiction.

West had married Claudia M. Weyant in 1928. The marriage remained childless. West died in 1980 at the age of 79.

bibliography

Bird of Time (short story series)
Earthling Bill Newsome and the Martian bird woman Yahna experience dramatic and sometimes comical adventures in a war of the worlds. The 1959 novel is a fix-up of the short story series.
  • En Route to Pluto (1936)
  • The Lure of Polaris (1949)
  • The Bird of Time (1952)
  • Captive Audience (1953)
  • The Bird of Time (1959, novel)
Great Legend / Lords of Atlantis (short story series)
In prehistoric times, a Martian colony, later known as Atlantis , existed on the bottom of the dried up Mediterranean Sea, threatened by a comet impact. Their rulers and scientists became the gods of the Greek pantheon after the fall of Atlantis . The 1960 novel is a fix-up of the short story series.
  • Thy Days Are Numbered! (1952)
  • They Shall Rise (1952)
  • We Will Inherit ... (1952)
  • ... And Found Wanting (1952)
  • Lords of Atlantis (1960, novel)
Novels
  • The Dark Tower (1951, also as The Memory Bank , 1961)
By storing memories in the “memory bank”, people who fled to planets of the Centauri system after the destruction of the earth gain a kind of immortality. Now this is threatened.
  • River of Time (1963)
Time travel novel in which four students travel back to the time of the Roman Empire to prevent its downfall.
  • The Time-Lockers (1964)
  • The Everlasting Exiles (1967)
collection
  • Outposts in Space (1962)
    • German: outpost in space. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 401), 1964.
Short stories
  • Static (1926)
  • Loup-Garou (1927)
  • The Incubator Man (1928)
  • The Last Man (1929)
  • The Empty Road (1930)
  • The Last Incarnation (1930)
  • Moon Madness (1931)
  • The Laughing Duke (1932)
  • Plane People (1933)
  • The End of Time (1933)
  • Dragon's Teeth (1934)
  • The Retreat from Utopia (1934)
  • The Phantom Dictator (1935)
About the possibilities and dangers of subliminal messages when used for subliminal advertising , propaganda and manipulation, over twenty years before Vance Packard's The Secret Seducers .
  • En Route to Pluto (1936)
  • Superman, Ltd. (1937)
  • Sculptors of Life (1939)
  • Outlaw Queen of Venus (1944)
  • The Tanner of Kiev (1944)
  • The Cannonball Road (1945)
  • The Lure of Polaris (1949)
  • Nocturne (1950)
  • The Weariest River (1950)
  • No War Tomorrow (1951)
  • The Belt (1951)
  • The Everlasting Exiles (1951)
  • No War Tomorrow (1951)
  • ... And Found Wanting (1952)
  • They Shall Rise (1952)
  • Thy Days Are Numbered! (1952)
  • We Will Inherit ... (1952)
  • The Bird of Time (1952)
  • Eddie for Short (1953)
  • Lists, Children ... Lists! (1953)
  • Siren Song (1953)
  • Captive Audience (1953)
  • Methuselah, Ltd. (1953, with Richard Barr)
  • Rubberneck (1953, with Richard Barr)
  • Timber (1953, with Richard Barr)
  • Moon Dance (1954)
  • The Disenchanted (1954, with John Hillyard)
  • Bread Upon the Waters (1955)
  • Scoops Gets the Birdie (1955)
  • Second Harvest (1955)
  • Voyage to Nowhere (1955)
    • German: advance into nowhere. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia special volume, # 2. Pabel 1956.
  • Labor of Love (1956)
  • The Time-Lockers (1956)
  • A Better Mousetrap (1957)
  • BEMA (1957)
  • Traffic Jimjams at Laurel Creek (1957)
  • Haunted Centennial (1958)
  • The Curse of the Cliff Dwellers (1958)
  • Blow That Horn of Plenty (1959)
  • Heinrich (1961)
  • Dawningsburgh (1962)
  • Outlaw (1962)
  • A Thing of Beauty (1963)
  • Glimpses of the Moon (1965)
  • Sacrilege (1965)
  • Dust (1967)
A story written in 1935 about environmental destruction that was so ahead of its time that it was rejected by the magazine's editors at the time and could only appear decades later.
  • The Last Filibuster (1967)
  • Leasehold (1978)
Others
  • Alice in Wonderland (1934, after Lewis Carroll )
  • Betty Boop in Snow-White: Assisted by Bimbo and Ko-Ko (1934)
  • Betty Boop in Miss Gulliver's Travels (1935)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The place of birth could not be located. IMDb states Verna Hills, Kentucky as the place of birth.
personal data
SURNAME West, Wallace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES West, Wallace George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Walnut Hills , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1980
Place of death Shelby , Michigan