The Best of Lester Del Rey by Lester del Rey

Dust jacket has light edge wear at spine, now in new removable protective cover. The Wings of Night Into Thy Hands (nominated, 1996 Retro-Hugo for best short story of 1945) And It Comes Out Here The Monster The Years Draw Nigh Instinct Superstition For I Am a Jealous People! The Keepers of the House Little Jimmy The Seat of Judgment Vengeance Is Mine Author's Afterword, essay by Lester del Rey.īook club hardcover: Very good book in like dust jacket. Stories: Helen O'Loy (Science Fiction Hall of Fame story) The Day Is Done The Coppersmith Hereafter, Inc. We are very pleasd to bring to you for your consideration the anthology, The Best of Lester Del Rey, in different editions. He retired from the publishing house in February 1992. Del Rey was most successful editing with his fourth wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, at Ballantine Books (as a Random House property, post-Ballantine) where they established the fantasy and science fiction imprint Del Rey Books in 1977. He later became an editor for several pulp magazines and then for book publishers. His novel writing slowed down toward the end of the sixties.

He continued publishing novels, as well as short fiction, at a fast pace through the 1950s and the early sixties. The December 1938 issue featured his story 'Helen O'Loy' which was selected for the prestigious anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Campbell published his first short story in the April 1938 issue: 'The Faithful', already under the name Lester del Rey. He was associated with the most prestigious science fiction magazine of the era, Astounding Science Fiction, from the time its editor John W. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.

The Best of Lester Del Rey by Lester del Rey