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Lester del Rey, the Glossary

Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.^[1]

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Advent:Publishers

Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house.

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Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. Lester del Rey and Algis Budrys are American speculative fiction critics and science fiction critics.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.

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Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction. Lester del Rey and Andre Norton are 20th-century pseudonymous writers and SFWA Grand Masters.

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Attack from Atlantis

Attack from Atlantis (1953) is a science fiction novel written by Lester del Rey.

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Badge of Infamy

Badge of Infamy is a juvenile science fiction novel written by American writer Lester del Rey.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Balrog Awards

The Balrog Awards were a set of awards given annually from 1979 to 1985 for the best works and achievements of speculative fiction in the previous year.

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Black Widowers

The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971.

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Brian Stableford

Brian Michael Stableford (25 July 1948 – 24 February 2024) was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. Lester del Rey and Brian Stableford are 20th-century pseudonymous writers and science fiction critics.

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Common Time

"Common Time" is a science fiction short story by American writer James Blish.

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Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. Lester del Rey and Damon Knight are American science fiction editors, American speculative fiction critics, SFWA Grand Masters and science fiction critics.

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Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction. Lester del Rey and Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award are SFWA Grand Masters.

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Del Rey Books

Del Rey Books is an imprint of the Random House Group, a division of Penguin Random House.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information.

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Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

The Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, or Skylark, annually recognizes someone for lifetime contributions to science fiction, "both through work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities which made the late 'Doc' Smith well-loved by those who knew him".

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Farnsworth Wright

Farnsworth Wright (July 29, 1888 – June 12, 1940) was the editor of the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the magazine's heyday, editing 179 issues from November 1924 to March 1940.

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Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. Lester del Rey and Frederik Pohl are American science fiction editors, American speculative fiction critics and SFWA Grand Masters.

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Golden Age of Science Fiction

The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction literature appeared.

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Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.

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Helen O'Loy

"Helen O'Loy" is a science fiction short story by American writer Lester del Rey, originally published in 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction.

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If (magazine)

If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn.

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Imprint (trade name)

An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work.

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In Search of Wonder

In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction is a collection of critical essays by American writer Damon Knight.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Lester del Rey and Isaac Asimov are pulp fiction writers and SFWA Grand Masters.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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James Blish

James Benjamin Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Lester del Rey and James Blish are 20th-century pseudonymous writers, American literary critics, American speculative fiction critics and science fiction critics.

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John Clute

John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. Lester del Rey and John Clute are science fiction critics.

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John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. Lester del Rey and John W. Campbell are American science fiction editors and pulp fiction writers.

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Judy-Lynn del Rey

Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin (January 26, 1943 – February 20, 1986) was a science fiction editor. Lester del Rey and Judy-Lynn del Rey are American book editors.

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Kensington Publishing

Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New Yorkbased publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William.

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This is a list of notable science-fiction authors, in alphabetical order.

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Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Marooned on Mars

Marooned on Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel written by American writer Lester del Rey.

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Minicon

Minicon is a science fiction and fantasy convention in Minneapolis usually held on Easter weekend.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Moon of Mutiny

Moon of Mutiny is a juvenile Science fiction novel by author Lester del Rey published in 1961 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston as the final part of the Jim Stanley Series (the first two books being Step to the Stars and Mission to the Moon).

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New England Science Fiction Association

The New England Science Fiction Association, or NESFA, is a science fiction club centered in the New England area.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paul W. Fairman

Paul Warren Fairman (1909–1977) was an editor and writer in a variety of genres under his own name and under pseudonyms. Lester del Rey and Paul W. Fairman are American science fiction editors and pulp fiction writers.

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Prometheus Books

Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Raymond F. Jones

Raymond Fisher Jones (15 November 1915 – 24 January 1994) was an American science fiction author.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Lester del Rey and Robert A. Heinlein are 20th-century pseudonymous writers, pulp fiction writers and SFWA Grand Masters.

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Robots and Changelings

Robots and Changelings is the second collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by Lester del Rey, published by Ballantine Books in 1957.

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Rocket Jockey (novel)

Rocket Jockey is a juvenile science fiction novel by Philip St.

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Saratoga Township, Winona County, Minnesota

Saratoga Township is a township in Winona County, Minnesota.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.

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Science Fiction Forum

Science Fiction Forum was a critical journal of science fiction.

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Scott Meredith

Scott Meredith, (born Arthur Scott Feldman; November 24, 1923, New York City, NY – February 11, 1993, Manhasset, NY) was a prominent American literary agent, and founder of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

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Short order cooking

Short order cooking is the preparation of inexpensive restaurant foods that are quick to cook.

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The Best of Lester del Rey

The Best of Lester del Rey is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Lester del Rey.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 is a 1970 anthology of English language science fiction short stories, edited by Robert Silverberg.

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The Sky Is Falling (Del Rey novel)

The Sky Is Falling is a short novel by American writer Lester del Rey.

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Trap Door Spiders

The Trap Door Spiders are a literary, male-only eating, drinking, and arguing society in New York City, with a membership historically composed of notable science fiction personalities.

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Tunnel Through Time

Tunnel Through Time is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Paul W. Fairman under American science fiction and fantasy author Lester del Rey's byline.

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Unknown (magazine)

Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell.

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Weill Cornell Medical Center

Weill Cornell Medical Center, previously known as New York Hospital or Old New York Hospital or City Hospital, is a research hospital in New York City.

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Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922.

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Winston Science Fiction

Winston Science Fiction was a series of 37 American juvenile science fiction books published by the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1960 and by its successor Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1960 and 1961.

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Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.

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... And Some Were Human

"...and some were human." is the first story collection by science fiction writer Lester del Rey, originally published in hardcover by Prime Press in 1948 in an edition of 3,050 copies if which 50 were specially bound, slipcased and signed by the author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_del_Rey

Also known as Charles Satterfield, Erik Van Lhin, Erik von Lhin, John Alvarez, Leonard Knapp, Marion Henry, Philip St. John, Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey, Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes, The Day Is Done, Wade Kaempfert.

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