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Rey, Lester del was born on June 2, 1915 in Saratoga, Minnesota, United States. Son of Franc and Jane (Sidway) del Rey.
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The planetoid world of Juno is the setting for this exciting science fiction adventure in which two young people, Pete Mason and Rachel Barry, are forced to learn about trust and understanding. It begins when a mysterious derelict rocket ship that appeared from nowhere to threaten Jane.....Wikipedia: Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. Del Rey first started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s, at the dawn of the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction. He was associated with the most prestigious science fiction magazine of the era, Astounding Science Fiction, and its editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. In the 1950s, del Rey was one of the main science fiction writers writing for adolescents (along with Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton). During this time some of his fiction was published under the name "Erik van Lhin". Del Rey was a member of an all-male literary banqueting club, the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. Del Rey himself was the model for the "Emmanuel Rubin" character. Del Rey was awarded the 1972 E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark Award) by the New England Science Fiction Association for "contributing significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities that made the late "Doc" Smith well-loved by those who knew him". He was awarded the 1985 Balrog Special Award (organized by Locus Magazine), a fan-voted award for works of fantasy. He was also awarded the 1990 Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.
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Science Fiction/Short Stories. In fine condition, clean and unmarked. Tightly bound. A very nice vintage collector's item. Number # 25063. Originally $1.95. Protected in a clear poly sleeve.
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Bruce Gordon was an ex-fighter, ex-gambler, ex-cop, ex-reporter, and now he was an ex-patriot of Earth. Security shipped him to Mars with a knife, 100 credits, and a yellow card that meant no return. A science-fiction novel that would appeal to Mickey Spillane fans, Police Your Planet features lots of violence, beatings, and blood. But this isn't just a crime novel put into space; this is a hard SF novel, and the terraforming of Mars is central to the story.
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Charged with insubordination, refusing to follow orders, and endangering the lives of others, a rebellious cadet is dismissed from the Goddard Space Academy and seeks to join the moon colony.
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It was an official test run..nothing dangerous, nothing unplanned. Just a chance to show the brass and the press how the new atomic sub Triton took the depths. Don Miller was thrilled to be aboard. It was the chance of a lifetime, and he wouldn't have missed it for the world. But at 500 fathoms, there was trouble with the tanks; at 700, there was even more..and there was a limit to the pressure even a sub like the Triton could take. Suddenly it became obvious that things were not happening accidentally, that at a depth never before possible for a man to reach, the Triton was being sabotaged!
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("We're returning to Earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul...)
"We're returning to Earth," Paul's father tells him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never! So begins a series of breathtaking adventures in space as Paul and his robot Rex attempt to outwit the forces that seek to separate them.
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• The robot named Rex had been bought as a companion for Paul when the Simpsons decided to pioneer on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter...a rough, dangerous satellite where a small boy needed a strong, intelligent robot to protect him. By the time Paul is sixteen, they are inseparable. Robots, of course, have a personality leeway that gives each one a certain individuality within its pattered capacities — and Rex had a wonderful personality, with a logic quotient that allowed him to reason. But when the Simpson family is ordered back to Earth and Paul refuses to part with Rex, the robot plans to stow away on a spaceship to Earth — no easy feat, even for a robot with Rex's abilities. Thrilling chases in skimmers, through spaceports, and over the deserts of Mars are just the start of the problems for The Runaway Robot!
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(Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was a renowned American Scie...)
Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was a renowned American Science Fiction writer in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He was awarded several Awards for his work in this field, including the Skylark Award, the Balrog Special Award and the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy. This volume contains six of his most compelling stories: • Dead Ringer • Let 'em Breathe Space • Pursuit • Victory • No Strings Attached • Police Your Planet
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Police Your Planet is a hard-boiled story of cheap grifters, Martian slums, and rampant crime features ex-cop Bruce Gordon, shipped to Mars with a knife, 100 credits, and a yellow card that means no return... Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor at Del Rey Books. He was awarded the E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, Balrog Award and the 11th SFWA Grand Master.
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is “Mirage for Planet X” by well-known science fiction author, Stanley Mullen. It’s interplanetary intrigue at its best. Torry had come to Mars looking for a man named Roper. They had been partners once—until Torry had found out what kind of man his partner really was. So with revenge and more on his mind, Torry set out for a public auction, an auction that featured two pieces of merchandise that would soon bring the worst elements of the Solar System into a showdown of frenzied bidding. The prize was sealed in two crates, its contents unknown. Yet scavengers from a dozen barbaric Moons; adventurers from nameless, semi-explored asteroids, arrived for the deathless auction…to bid on Roper’s mysterious crates, the contents of which held the promise of a massive interplanetary confidence job, or the key to salvation for a dying race of people. The second novel is “Police Your Planet” by heralded sci-fi author and editor, Lester del Rey. His ticket to Mars was stamped: “One-way.” “Police Your Planet” is a good old-fashioned science fiction adventure yarn. Yet it also has all the earmarks of a gritty hard-boiled cop novel. It’s the story of Bruce Gordon, a man sent to Mars with a one-way ticket. A man with a controversial past who faces danger and corruption in the far-off city of Marsport, Gordon wasn’t crazy about the town, which was basically a central city covered by gigantic air dome surrounded by a massive slum. Gordon soon found himself tangled in a web of intrigue, caught in the middle between two warring factions, both riddled in corruption. He is soon attacked with fists, knives, clubs, and guns (nope, not ray-guns—these things fire bullets!) But the key for Bruce Gordon was finding a way to bring both sides to their knees without losing his life!
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Rey, Lester del was born on June 2, 1915 in Saratoga, Minnesota, United States. Son of Franc and Jane (Sidway) del Rey.
Student, George Washington University, 1931-1933.
Author, since 1937; sheet metal worker, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, 1942-1944; author's agent, Scott Meredith Literature Agency, New York City, 1947-1950; teacher fantasy fiction, New York University, 1972-1973; former editor science fiction magazines editor Best Science Fiction Stories of Year, Evangelical Presbyterian Dutton & Company, 1971-1975; fantasy editor, Ballantine Books, since 1975; vice president, Ballantine Books, since 1988.
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Married Judy-Lynn Benjamin, March 21, 1971.