Avalon Books
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Avalon Books was a New York
-based specialty science fiction
publisher
active from the mid 1950s through the late 1960s. It issued much of the hardcover
material in the genre during the period, particularly in the earlier portion. Avalon issued new titles, reissued out of print titles originally from other publishers, and first editions of material that had previously only seen magazine publication. Later, competition with mainstream hardcover and paperback publishers starting their own science fiction lines and the marginal nature of genre pubishing in general led to the firm going out of business.
Authors published by Avalon include Poul Anderson
, E. L. Arch
, Bruce Ariss
, Manly Banister, Eando Binder
, James Blish
, J. Harvey Bond, Lin Carter
, Curtis W. Casewit, A. Bertram Chandler
, Adam Chase
, Stanton A. Coblentz
, Hunt Collins, Ray Cummings
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Diane Detzer, George Allan England
, Oscar J. Friend
, J. U. Giesy
, David Grinnell, Joan Hunter Holly, Raymond F. Jones
, Ivar Jorgenson, Joseph E. Kelleam
, Otis Adelbert Kline
, Murray Leinster
, Erik Van Lhin, Charles R. Long, Frank Belknap Long
, Robert W. Lowndes, Adam Lukens, Fred MacIsaac, Charles Eric Maine
, S. P. Meek
, Philip Francis Nowlan
, David Osborne, Rog Phillips
, Fletcher Pratt
, Lester del Rey
, Jorge de Reyna, Eric Frank Russell
, Robert Sheckley
, Lee Sheldon
, Robert Silverberg
, Evelyn E. Smith, George Henry Smith
, George O. Smith
, Francis Stevens, Charles B. Stilson, Leslie F. Stone, Jeff Sutton, E. C. Tubb, Jack Vance
, Roger Lee Vernon
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Wallace West
, Robert Moore Williams
, and Russ Winterbotham.
Its books featured cover art by Ric Binkley, Ed Emshwiller
(also known as Emsh), Gray Morrow
, and Michael M. Peters.
New York City
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-based specialty science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
publisher
Publishing
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active from the mid 1950s through the late 1960s. It issued much of the hardcover
Hardcover
A hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers...
material in the genre during the period, particularly in the earlier portion. Avalon issued new titles, reissued out of print titles originally from other publishers, and first editions of material that had previously only seen magazine publication. Later, competition with mainstream hardcover and paperback publishers starting their own science fiction lines and the marginal nature of genre pubishing in general led to the firm going out of business.
Authors published by Avalon include Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
, E. L. Arch
Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Rachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
, Bruce Ariss
Bruce Ariss
Bruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. was an American artist and writer.-Life:Bruce Ariss has been influential in Monterey, California, where a street and theatre have been named after him. In addition, he has numerous murals there, at least some of which were 1930s Works Progress Administration projects...
, Manly Banister, Eando Binder
Eando Binder
Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder and his brother Otto Binder . The name is derived from their first initials ....
, James Blish
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:...
, J. Harvey Bond, Lin Carter
Lin Carter
Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...
, Curtis W. Casewit, A. Bertram Chandler
A. Bertram Chandler
Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
, Adam Chase
Stephen Marlowe
Stephen Marlowe was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe...
, Stanton A. Coblentz
Stanton A. Coblentz
Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
, Hunt Collins, Ray Cummings
Ray Cummings
Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New York....
, L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
, Diane Detzer, George Allan England
George Allan England
George Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
, Oscar J. Friend
Oscar J. Friend
Oscar Jerome Friend began his career primarily as a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Captain Future and Thrilling Wonder Stories...
, J. U. Giesy
John Ulrich Giesy
John Ulrich Giesy born 6 August 1877 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA, was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B...
, David Grinnell, Joan Hunter Holly, Raymond F. Jones
Raymond F. Jones
Raymond Fisher Jones was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel, This Island Earth, which was adapted into the 1955 film This Island Earth.-Career:...
, Ivar Jorgenson, Joseph E. Kelleam
Joseph E. Kelleam
Joseph Everidge Kelleam , born in Boswell, Oklahoma, was an American writer. His first story, "Rust", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.His novels include:...
, Otis Adelbert Kline
Otis Adelbert Kline
Otis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
, Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
, Erik Van Lhin, Charles R. Long, Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
, Robert W. Lowndes, Adam Lukens, Fred MacIsaac, Charles Eric Maine
Charles Eric Maine
Charles Eric Maine was an English science fiction writer whose most prominent works were published in the 1950s and 1960s...
, S. P. Meek
S. P. Meek
Sterner St. Paul Meek was a US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. He published much of his work first as Capt. S.P. Meek, then, briefly, as Major S.P. Meek and, after 1933, as Col. S. P. Meek. He also published one story as Sterner St...
, Philip Francis Nowlan
Philip Francis Nowlan
Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.-Career:...
, David Osborne, Rog Phillips
Rog Phillips
Roger Phillips Graham was an American science fiction writer who most often wrote under the name Rog Phillips, but also used other names. Although of his other pseudonyms only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is most associated with Amazing Stories and is best known for short fiction...
, Fletcher Pratt
Fletcher Pratt
Murray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
, Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.-Birth...
, Jorge de Reyna, Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
, Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...
, Lee Sheldon
Lee Sheldon
Lee Sheldon may refer to:* Lee Sheldon , game developer and writer* Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer...
, Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
, Evelyn E. Smith, George Henry Smith
George H. Smith (fiction author)
George Henry Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, a libertarian writer, or George O...
, George O. Smith
George O. Smith
George Oliver Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.-Biography:...
, Francis Stevens, Charles B. Stilson, Leslie F. Stone, Jeff Sutton, E. C. Tubb, Jack Vance
Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
, Roger Lee Vernon
Roger Lee Vernon
Roger Lee Vernon is an American science fiction writer.He got a master's degree from Northwestern University, traveled extensively throughout North American and Europe, and while writing his stories in the early 1950s worked as a Chicago high school teacher.-Works:* The Space Frontiers - short...
, Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
, Wallace West
Wallace West
Wallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
, Robert Moore Williams
Robert Moore Williams
Robert Moore Williams , born in Farmington, Missouri, was an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Pseudonyms included John S Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and E. K. Jarvis ....
, and Russ Winterbotham.
Its books featured cover art by Ric Binkley, Ed Emshwiller
Ed Emshwiller
Ed Emshwiller was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films...
(also known as Emsh), Gray Morrow
Gray Morrow
Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow was an American illustrator of paperback books and comics.-Biography:Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Morrow is best known as art director of Spider-Man between 1967 and 1970 and as illustrator of the syndicated Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant comic...
, and Michael M. Peters.
1956
- Police Your Planet (Erik Van Lhin)
- Star Ways (Poul AndersonPoul AndersonPoul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
) - The Secret People (Raymond F. JonesRaymond F. JonesRaymond Fisher Jones was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel, This Island Earth, which was adapted into the 1955 film This Island Earth.-Career:...
) - Three to Conquer (Eric Frank RussellEric Frank RussellEric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
) - Tomorrow's World (Hunt CollinsEvan HunterEvan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952...
)
1957
- Across Time (David Grinnell)
- Alien Dust (E. C. Tubb)
- Big PlanetBig PlanetBig Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet....
(Jack VanceJack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
) - City on the Moon (Murray LeinsterMurray LeinsterMurray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
) - Conquest of Earth (Manly Banister)
- Hidden World (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - Solomon's StoneSolomon's StoneSolomon's Stone is a fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds for June, 1942...
(L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
) - The Infinite Brain (Charles R. Long)
- Troubled Star (George O. SmithGeorge O. SmithGeorge Oliver Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.-Biography:...
) - Twice in Time (Manly Wade WellmanManly Wade WellmanManly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
) - WaspWasp (novel)Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by English author Eric Frank Russell. Terry Pratchett stated that he "can't imagine a funnier terrorists' handbook." Wasp is generally considered Russell's best novel.The title of Wasp comes from the idea that the main character's actions and central purpose...
(Eric Frank RussellEric Frank RussellEric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
)
1958
- Aliens From Space (David Osborne)
- Edge of Time (David GrinnellDonald A. WollheimDonald Allen Wollheim was an American science fiction ' editor, publisher, writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell....
) - Fire in the Heavens (George O. SmithGeorge O. SmithGeorge Oliver Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.-Biography:...
) - Immortality Delivered (Robert SheckleyRobert SheckleyRobert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...
) - Invisible Barriers (David Osborne)
- Out of This World (Murray LeinsterMurray LeinsterMurray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
) - Spaceways Satellite (Charles Eric MaineCharles Eric MaineCharles Eric Maine was an English science fiction writer whose most prominent works were published in the 1950s and 1960s...
) - Starhaven (Ivar Jorgenson)
- The Blue Barbarians (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Languages of PaoThe Languages of PaoThe Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a central theme. A shorter version was published in Satellite Science Fiction in late 1957. After the Avalon Books hardcover appeared the next year, it was reprinted in...
(Jack VanceJack VanceJohn Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
) - The Space Egg (Russ Winterbotham)
- The Tower of ZanidThe Tower of ZanidThe Tower of Zanid is a science fiction novel written by L. Sprague de Camp, the sixth book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and the fourth of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. Chronologically it is the seventh Krishna novel. It was first published in the magazine...
(L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
)
1959
- Day of the Giants (Lester del ReyLester del ReyLester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.-Birth...
) - Encounter (J. Hunter HollyJ. Hunter HollyJoan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s...
) - Giants from Eternity (Manly Wade WellmanManly Wade WellmanManly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
) - Lost in Space (George O. SmithGeorge O. SmithGeorge Oliver Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.-Biography:...
) - Robot Hunt (Roger Lee VernonRoger Lee VernonRoger Lee Vernon is an American science fiction writer.He got a master's degree from Northwestern University, traveled extensively throughout North American and Europe, and while writing his stories in the early 1950s worked as a Chicago high school teacher.-Works:* The Space Frontiers - short...
) - The Dark Destroyers (Manly Wade WellmanManly Wade WellmanManly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
) - The Duplicated ManThe Duplicated ManThe Duplicated Man is a science fiction novel written by James Blish and Robert Lowndes and published first in 1953 by Columbia Publications, and a second time in 1959 by Airmont Publishing by arrangement with Thomas Bouregy and Company, Inc....
(James BlishJames BlishJames Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:...
) and Robert Lowndes) - The Golden Ape (Adam ChaseStephen MarloweStephen Marlowe was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe...
) - The Involuntary Immortals (Rog PhillipsRog PhillipsRoger Phillips Graham was an American science fiction writer who most often wrote under the name Rog Phillips, but also used other names. Although of his other pseudonyms only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is most associated with Amazing Stories and is best known for short fiction...
) - The Martian Missile (David Grinnell)
- The Sea People (Adam Lukens)
- Virgin Planet (Poul AndersonPoul AndersonPoul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
)
1960
- Conquest of Life (Adam Lukens)
- He Owned the World (Charles Eric MaineCharles Eric MaineCharles Eric Maine was an English science fiction writer whose most prominent works were published in the 1950s and 1960s...
) - Hunters of Space (Joseph E. KelleamJoseph E. KelleamJoseph Everidge Kelleam , born in Boswell, Oklahoma, was an American writer. His first story, "Rust", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.His novels include:...
) - Invaders from Rigel (Fletcher PrattFletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
) - Lords of Atlantis (Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
) - Next Door to the Sun (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Glory That WasThe Glory That WasThe Glory That Was is a science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the science fiction magazine Startling Stories for April, 1952, and subsequently published in book form in hardcover by Avalon Books in 1960 and in paperback by Paperback Library in 1971. It has since...
(L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
) - The Little Men (Joseph E. KelleamJoseph E. KelleamJoseph Everidge Kelleam , born in Boswell, Oklahoma, was an American writer. His first story, "Rust", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.His novels include:...
) - The Peacemakers (Curtis W. Casewit)
- The Swordsman of Mars (Otis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
) - Wall of SerpentsWall of SerpentsWall of Serpents is a collection of two classic fantasy short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the third volume in their Harold Shea series. The pieces were originally published in the magazines Fantasy Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction in the...
(L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
) and Fletcher PrattFletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
)
1961
- Believers' World (Robert W. Lowndes)
- Collision Course (Robert SilverbergRobert SilverbergRobert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
) - Destiny's Orbit (David Grinnell)
- Island in the Sky (Manly Wade WellmanManly Wade WellmanManly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
) - Planet of Peril (Otis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
) - Sons of the Wolf (Adam Lukens)
- The Drums of Tapajos (Colonel S. P. Meek)
- The Memory Bank (Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
) - The Outlaws of MarsThe Outlaws of MarsThe Outlaws of Mars is a science fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline in the planetary romance subgenre pioneered by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally serialized in seven parts in the magazine Argosy beginning in November, 1933...
(Otis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
) - The Rim of Space (A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram ChandlerArthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
) - The Runaway World (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - Troyana (Colonel S. P. Meek)
1962
- Alien PlanetAlien PlanetAlien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also...
(Fletcher PrattFletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :...
) - Armageddon 2419 A.D.Armageddon 2419 A.D.Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel called The Airlords of Han was published in the March 1929 issue of Amazing Stories. Both stories are now in the public domain in the US according to...
(Philip Francis NowlanPhilip Francis NowlanPhilip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.-Career:...
) - Outposts in Space (Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
) - Prince of Peril (Otis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
) - Tam, Son of the Tiger (Otis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert KlineOtis Adelbert Kline born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E...
) - The Dark Planet (J. Hunter HollyJ. Hunter HollyJoan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s...
) - The Glass CageThe Glass CageThe Glass Cage can mean:* The Glass Cage a British crime film starring Honor Blackman and Sid James.* The Glass Cage an Israeli-French film.* The Glass Cage an American film.* The Glass Cage...
(Adam Lukens) - The Perfect Planet (Evelyn E. Smith)
- The Search for Zei (L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
) - The World Within (Adam Lukens)
- Walk Up the Sky (Robert Moore WilliamsRobert Moore WilliamsRobert Moore Williams , born in Farmington, Missouri, was an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Pseudonyms included John S Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and E. K. Jarvis ....
)
1963
- Alien World (Adam Lukens)
- Bridge to Yesterday (E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
) - Eevalu (Adam Lukens)
- Full CircleFull Circle-Albums:* Full Circle * Full Circle * Full Circle * Full Circle * Full Circle * Full Circle * Full Circle...
(Bruce ArissBruce ArissBruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. was an American artist and writer.-Life:Bruce Ariss has been influential in Monterey, California, where a street and theatre have been named after him. In addition, he has numerous murals there, at least some of which were 1930s Works Progress Administration projects...
) - River of TimeRiver of TimeRiver of Time is the title of a studio album released by RCA Records in 1989 by the American country music duo The Judds. It features the singles "Young Love ," "Let Me Tell You About Love," "One Man Woman" and "Guardian Angel." While the first two singles reached #1 on the country charts, the...
(Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
) - The Atom Conspiracy (Jeff Sutton)
- The Gray Aliens (Joan Hunter Holly)
- The Hand of ZeiThe Hand of ZeiThe Hand of Zei is a science fiction novel written by L. Sprague de Camp, the second book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna....
(L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
) - The Men from Arcturus (Russ Winterbotham)
- The Other WorldThe Other WorldThe Other World was a line of toys by Arco and were released in 1982. The figures were composed of bendable rubber and glow in the dark weapons. Large creatures were used as beasts of burden or as villains...
(J. Harvey Bond) - The Star Men (Oscar J. FriendOscar J. FriendOscar Jerome Friend began his career primarily as a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Captain Future and Thrilling Wonder Stories...
) - Three Steps Spaceward (Frank B. LongFrank Belknap LongFrank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
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1964
- Glory Planet (A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram ChandlerArthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
) - Mission to a Star (Frank Belknap LongFrank Belknap LongFrank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
) - Planet of DeathPlanet of DeathPOD - Planet of Death is a futuristic racing game for Windows released by Ubisoft in 1997. The game is set in the distant future on the planet Io. A mining accident unleashes a virus from within the planet on its inhabitants, causing widespread panic. After most of the population escapes the...
(E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
) - The Deathstones (E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
) - The Eternal Man (Charles R. Long)
- The Exile of Time (Ray CummingsRay CummingsRay Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New York....
) - The Lizard Lords (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Martian Visitors (Frank B. LongFrank Belknap LongFrank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
) - The Moon People (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Puppet Planet (Russ Winterbotham)
- Time Lockers (Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
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1965
- Beyond the Great Oblivion (George Allan EnglandGeorge Allan EnglandGeorge Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
) - Darkness and Dawn (George Allan EnglandGeorge Allan EnglandGeorge Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
) - Enslaved Brains (Eando BinderEando BinderEando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder and his brother Otto Binder . The name is derived from their first initials ....
) - Explorers Into Infinity (Ray CummingsRay CummingsRay Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New York....
) - Palos of the Dog Star PackPalos of the Dog Star PackPalos of the Dog Star Pack is a science fiction novel by John Ulrich Giesy. It was first published in book form in 1965 by Avalon Books. The novel was originally serialized in five parts in the magazine All-Story Weekly beginning in July, 1918....
(J. U. GiesyJohn Ulrich GiesyJohn Ulrich Giesy born 6 August 1877 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA, was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B...
) - Polaris of the Snows (Charles B. Stilson)
- The Dark Enemy (J. Hunter HollyJ. Hunter HollyJoan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s...
) - The First Immortals (E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
) - The Forgotten PlanetThe Forgotten PlanetThe Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine Argosy in 1920 and...
(George Henry SmithGeorge H. Smith (fiction author)George Henry Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, a libertarian writer, or George O...
) - The Hothouse World (Fred MacIsaac)
- The Mouthpiece of ZituThe Mouthpiece of ZituThe Mouthpiece of Zitu is a science fiction novel by John Ulrich Giesy. It was first published in book form in 1965 by Avalon Books. The novel was originally serialized in five parts in the magazine All-Story Weekly beginning in August, 1919....
(J. U. GiesyJohn Ulrich GiesyJohn Ulrich Giesy born 6 August 1877 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA, was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B...
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1966
- Claimed (Francis Stevens)
- Jason, Son of JasonJason, Son of JasonJason, Son of Jason is a science fiction novel by John Ulrich Giesy. It was first published in book form in 1966 by Avalon Books. The novel was originally serialized in five parts in the magazine Argosy All-Story beginning in April, 1921....
(J. U. GiesyJohn Ulrich GiesyJohn Ulrich Giesy born 6 August 1877 near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA, was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B...
) - Lord of Tranerica (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - Minos of Sardanes (Charles Stilson)
- The Double-Minded Man (E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
) - The Lord of Nardos (Russ Winterbotham)
- The Mind Traders (J. Hunter HollyJ. Hunter HollyJoan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s...
) - The People of the AbyssThe People of the AbyssThe People of the Abyss is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets...
(George Allan EnglandGeorge Allan EnglandGeorge Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
) - When the Red King Woke (Joseph E. KelleamJoseph E. KelleamJoseph Everidge Kelleam , born in Boswell, Oklahoma, was an American writer. His first story, "Rust", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.His novels include:...
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1967
- Destination: Saturn (Lin CarterLin CarterLinwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft and Grail Undwin.-Life:Carter was born in St. Petersburg, Florida...
and David Grinnell) - Doomed Planet (Lee SheldonLee SheldonLee Sheldon may refer to:* Lee Sheldon , game developer and writer* Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer...
) - Druids' World (George Henry SmithGeorge H. Smith (fiction author)George Henry Smith was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, a libertarian writer, or George O...
) - Out of the AbyssOut of the AbyssOut of the Abyss is the seventh studio album released by the band Manilla Road. It was first issued in 1988 on Black Dragon Records, then re-released in 2005 on Cult Metal Classics...
(George Allan EnglandGeorge Allan EnglandGeorge Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
) - Out of the Void (Leslie F. Stone)
- The AfterglowThe AfterglowThe Afterglow are an Italian rock band with clear English influences. Founder members the half English frontman Dave Timson and guitarist Mik Lennard, who started the band in 1998. After a few line up changes they found the right drummer in Alex Cherry, who joined the pair in 2002...
(George Allan EnglandGeorge Allan EnglandGeorge Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in...
) - The Crimson Capsule (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Everlasting Exiles (Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
) - The Insect Invasion (Ray CummingsRay CummingsRay Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New York....
) - The Man With Three Eyes (E. L. ArchRachel Cosgrove PayesRachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
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1968
- Planet of Fear (Diane Detzer)
- Polaris and the Immortals (Charles B. Stilson)
- The Day the World Stopped (Stanton A. CoblentzStanton A. CoblentzStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
) - The Return of the Starships (Jorge de Reyna)