Lester Del Rey

The first and shortest version was published in Beyond Fantasy Fiction in July 1954 under the title "No More Stars" with the pseudonym Charles Satterfield. It first appeared in book form in 1963 with Badge of Infamy as "Two Complete Novels" in a Galaxy paperback original. The first book-length version was published in 1973 by Ace Books. Computer engineer Dave Hanson is transported from Earth to a world where the rules of science and physics are replaced...

There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!

When the enemy believes the worst of you, they won't settle for anything except the worst! Volcek believed his weapon would be humane, and less destructive than the dreaded fusion bombs. Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. He won the Balrog Award, the E. E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction, and he was a SFWA Grand Master.

He came on a mission-came from very far away on a horribly important mission. He knew that with a certainly. But what he didn't know, what he'd forgotten, was where he came from and why he was here. A classic science fiction story first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940.

Amazing Stories Volume 147 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by three different authors: "Imitation of Death" and "And there was Light" by Lester Del Rey, "Call Him Savage" by Howard Browne, and "License To Steal" by Louis Newman.

The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" Megapacks are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. Lester del Rey (1915-1993) is most remembered today as one of the namesakes of Del Rey Books - but in the Golden Age he was an accomplished writer who got his start alongside (and sold to the same markets as) a young Isaac Asimov. This volume assembles 9 classic del Rey tales - more than 500 pages of...

Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life. Something happened during that time, he's certain of it. Something important, important enough that people are trying to kill him to make sure he doesn't remember what it was. Can Hawkes avoid pursuit long enough to figure out why he's a hunted man, and even if his memory does return will it be enough to save him?

He was PRTSAC: Permanent Resident Through a Special Act of Congress. A set of initials, a title unique in history. And a human being - the most homesick human being in history. Fred Hunter was the permanent resident of the space station...the doughnut...because a hideous accident had rendered him physically incapable of returning to Earth. For ten years he sweated it out, while others came and went on tours of duty only a few months long. For ten...

In a moment he was through the cloud barrier and into the darkness. Earth was below the horizon today, but he saw Mars, clear and sharp against the backdrop of space. They wouldn't have done a fool thing like this to him on Mars, he thought. They weren't shorthanded there. But here, on Venus, the stepchild of space, the U.N. appropriation was bestowed grudgingly, and the technical staff was no more than skin-deep. Stasek scowled and thought of his...

"Fifth Freedom" is a classic science fiction story originally published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 issue.