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Informationen zum Autor Fred Nadis has been a visiting associate professor of American studies at Doshisha University in Japan, as well as a freelance journalist, publishing articles in the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer. “Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer’s practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely.” —Jerome Clark, Fortean Times “Fred Nadis’s insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing.” — The Washington Pos t “One of science fiction’s greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography.” — Publishers Weekly “Lucidly written and unfailingly lively, The Man from Mars is a biography worthy of its subject.” — Fate magazine Zusammenfassung Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer. “Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer’s practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely.” —Jerome Clark, Fortean Times “Fred Nadis’s insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing.” — The Washington Pos t “One of science fiction’s greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography.” — Publishers Weekly “Lucidly written and unfailingly lively, The Man from Mars is a biography worthy of its subject.” — Fate magazine...
