Pseudonyms: Howard Lee; Frank S Shawn; Kenneth Robeson; Con Steffanson; Josephine Kains; Joseph Silva; William Shatner. Ron Goulart is a cultural historian and novelist. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction—including the seminal Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines (1972)—Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner’s popular TekWar novels. Goulart’s After Things Fell Apart (1970) is the only science-fiction novel to ever win an Edgar Award. In the 1970s Goulart wrote novels starring series characters like Flash Gordon and the Phantom, and in 1980 he published Hail Hibbler, a comic sci-fi novel that began the Odd Jobs, Inc. series. Goulart has also written several comic mystery series, including six books starring Groucho Marx. Having written for comic books, Goulart produced several histories of the art form, including the Comic Book Encyclopedia (2004).
Series
Books
Hail Hibbler
1980
Big Bang
1982
William Shatner's Tekworld
1994
The Long Patrol
1984
Shaggy Planet
1943
The Emperor of the Last Days
1977
Calling Dr. Patchwork
1978
The Sword-Swallower
1967
Broke Down Engine
1971
A Graveyard Of My Own
1985
Harry Challenge
Victorian Supernatural Sleuth
2015
The Robot in the Closet
1981
Blood Wedding
1976
On Alien Wings
1975
If Dying Was All
1971
A Talent for the Invisible
1973
Zombies
More Recent Dead
2014
What's Become of Screwloose? and Other Inquiries
1971
Groucho Marx, Private Eye
1999
Greetings From Earth
1983
Daredevils, Ltd
1987
The Curse of the Obelisk
1987
Groucho Marx, Secret Agent
2002
Gadget Man
1971
Deathgame
1976
The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle
1984
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy
1998
Cheap Thrills
1972
The Hardboiled Dicks
1965
Hawkshaw
1972
The Fire Eater
1970
Experiment in Terra
1984
Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders
2001
One Grave Too Many
1974
Upside Downside
1982
Skyrocket Steele
1980
Nutzenbolts and More Troubles with Machines
1975
The Dime Detectives
1905
Even the Butler Was Poor
1990
Wildsmith
1972
Eye of the Vulture
1977
Capricorn One
1978
Suicide, Inc.
1985
Over 50 Years of American Comic Books
1990
Groucho Marx, Master Detective
1998
Everybody Comes to Cosmo's
1988
Too Sweet to Die
1972
Elementary, My Dear Groucho
A Mystery featuring Groucho Marx
1999
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle
A Mystery Featuring Groucho Marx
2005
Space Hawk, Inc.
1974
Quest of the Gypsy
1976
Galaxy Jane
1986
Star Hawks
1980
Hellquad
1984
Now He Thinks He's Dead
1992
A Whiff of Madness
1976
Brainz, Inc.
1985
Flux
1974
After Things Fell Apart
1970
The Enormous Hourglass
1976
Deadwalk
1976
Plunder
1972
Hello, Lemuria Hello
1979
Bloodstalk
1975
