Lester del Rey

2 June 1915 – 10 May 1993

100 works on record

Biography

Lester del Rey was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota, the son of poor sharecroppers of partly Spanish ancestry. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he managed to complete high school and two years at George Washington University before dropping out for economic reasons. He started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. He was closely associated Astounding Science Fiction, then the leading science fiction magazine. In 1935, his first wife was killed in a car accident. By 1947 he had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology And Some Were Human. In the 1950s, he was a leading science fiction writer. After marrying his second wife in 1945, he became a full-time writer. In 1947 he met the literary agent Scott Meredith at a convention and he began working for Meredith's agency as a reader and office manager. He later made his way into editing for pulp magazines and then for book publishers. In 1952 and 1953, he edited Space SF, Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures (as Philip St. John), Rocket Stories (as Wade Kampfaert), and Fantasy Fiction (as Cameron Hall). He was most successful editing for Ballantine Books with his final wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, and founded a popular science fiction imprint with her at Ballantine, Del Rey Books, in 1977.

Works

Fantastic science-fiction art 1926-1954

1975

“...and some were human”

1949

Preferred Risk

Jupiter

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A

Mortals and Monsters

Star Short Novels (Little Men / For I Am a Jealous People! / To Here and the Easel)

Robots

Weeping May Tarry

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)

The Last Man on Earth

Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- Volume 1, 1939

Friends, robots, countrymen

Once Upon a Time

Microcosmic Tales

The Great Science Fiction Stories. Volume 7, 1945

The Fantastic Universe Omnibus

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)

The Seventh Galaxy Reader

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)

Marooned on Mars

Best science fiction stories of the year

Once upon a time

Science Fiction of the forties

The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse

Attack from Atlantis

Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!

Battle on Mercury

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- Fifth Annual Collection

War and Space

Robots and Magic

The Science Fiction Roll of Honor

The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series

Moon of mutiny

Mission to the moon

Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts

Invasions

Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction [9 stories]

Space flight

Machines That Think

Best science fiction of the year ; fourth annual collection

Fantastic science-fiction art, 1926-1954

Yesterday's Tomorrows

The Alien MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

The Robot MEGAPACK®: 19 Gear-Grinding Robot Stories!

The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series

The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Lester del Rey

Science Fiction Hall of Fame

Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1

Las Lágrimas Pueden Tardar

Badge of Infamy

Best science fiction stories of the year -- fourth annual collection

The First Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®

Novels (Man Who Lived Forever / No More Stars)

The Early Del Rey Vol 1

Zvezdnaya politsiya

The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories

The 13th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Lester del Rey (Vol. 2) (Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®s)

The Military MEGAPACK ®

Ice City of the Gorgon & When the World Tottered

The golden years of science fiction -- fourth series

Battle on Mercury (Winston Science Fiction) (Volume 12)

Gods and Golems (Science Fiction Stories)

Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Seven: Lester del Rey

The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK

Worlds of If Super Pack #2

Tunnel Through Time

The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No. 1: Fifteen hundred pages of fiction

The Fantasy MEGAPACK ®

Lester del Rey Collection - Includes Dead Ringer, Let 'em Breathe Space, Pursuit, Victory, No Strings Attached, & Police Your Planet

Where Do We Go From Here? Book 1

Die besten Stories / von Lester DelRey.

Badge of Infamy

Space Science Fiction Super Pack

Police Your Planet

Invasion of the Robots

The Lester del Rey Scifi Collection

Mirage for Planet X & Police Your Planet

Das elfte Gebot ] [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1981] Del Rey, Lester

Runaway Robot

The Life Watch & Creatures of the Abyss

Psi

Step to the Stars

Police Your Planet

Tales of Time Travel - Book Five

Great Classic Science Fiction Lib/E

Lester del Rey Collection

Best SF Stories of the Year 2

Pursuit

Police Your Planet

The Best of Galaxy Volume Five

Lester del Rey - Boxed Set

World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976

World of Science Fiction 1926-1976

One Hundred

Let 'Em Breathe Space

Let 'em Breathe Space!

Let'em Breathe Space!

Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957