The Man from Mars

Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey

by Fred Nadis

Jeremy P Tarcher / Penguin, New York. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Purple boards with red quarter binding. Gold lettering on front, blue lettering on spine. 289 pages. B&W illustrations throughout.

Alright, Palmer wasn't an author. But science fiction fans will recognize him as one of the greatest editors in the field. It's a nice biography, and it pulls no punches when it discusses his controversial relationship with Richard S. Shaver ... which boosted sales dramatically for Palmer's Amazing Stories Magazine, but did more than a fair amount of damage to the genre as a whole.

If you want to know more about that, I recommend that you buy THIS book, and not one of the others that discuss it (especially if it's by Shaver).