The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun
1978
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3.50
Average Rating
336
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Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Collection of stories from a Golden Age science fiction writer, whose career spanned the pulp magazines of the 1930's, right through the 1980's. Includes an introduction by the editor, an afterword by Gallun, and these Old Faithful (1934); Derelict (1935); Davey Jones' Ambassador (1935); Godson of Almarlu (1936); A Menace in Miniature (1937); Seeds of the Dusk (1938); Hotel Cosmos (1938); Magician of Dream Valley (1938); The Shadow of the Veil (1939); The Lotus-Engine (1940); Prodigal's Aura (1951); The Restless Tide (1951); Return of a Legend (1952).
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3.50
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Author
Raymond Z. Gallun
Author · 11 books
Aka William Callahan, Arthur Allport. Raymond Zinke Gallun (March 22, 1911 - April 2, 1994) was an early science fiction writer. Gallun (rhymes with "balloon") was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He lived a drifter's existence, working a multitude of jobs around the world in the years leading up to World War II. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. "Old Faithful" (1934) was his first noted story. "The Gentle Brain" was published in "Science Fiction Quarterly" under the pseudonym Arthur Allport. Another of his pseudonyms was William Callahan.
