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Lester Del Rey

Lifespan
1915 – 1993
Nationality
American
Active
1950 – 1963
Works held
18

Lester del Rey (1915–1993) was a prolific writer of the Golden Age, his 'Helen O'Loy' and 'Nerves' are much-anthologised, who became, with his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey, one of the most important editors in the field. The Del Rey imprint they built at Ballantine turned fantasy into a bestselling category (publishing Terry Brooks and reissuing Tolkien to huge success). He was named a Grand Master shortly before his death.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of Badge of Infamy Badge of Infamy Cover of Earthbound Earthbound Cover of The Course of Logic The Course of Logic
  2. 1962
    Cover of Thunder in space Thunder in space
  3. 1961
    Cover of Spawning Ground Spawning Ground
  4. 1957
    Cover of The band played on The band played on
  5. 1956
    Cover of Dead Ringer Dead Ringer Cover of Police Your Planet Police Your Planet Cover of The Dwindling Years The Dwindling Years
  6. 1955
    Cover of Victory Victory
  7. 1954
    Cover of Battleground Battleground Cover of The Sky Is Falling The Sky Is Falling Cover of The life watch The life watch
  8. 1953
    Cover of Let 'Em Breathe Space! Let 'Em Breathe Space!
  9. 1951
    Cover of Absolutely no paradox Absolutely no paradox Cover of And there was light And there was light Cover of Operation Distress Operation Distress
  10. 1950
    Cover of Imitation of death Imitation of death

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaColonizationMilitary SFFirst ContactHard SFTime TravelArtificial Intelligence

Kindred authors shared themes

Charles L. FontenayJim HarmonRandall GarrettGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondRobert Silverberg

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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