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The Man From Mars : Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey by Fred Nadis; Thomas McKeveny is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Man From Mars : Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey about?
The rollicking true story of the legendary Amazing Stories editor who ruled over America's fantasy and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century, and shaped today's UFO and sci-fi cultures. Meet Ray Palmer. A hustler, a trickster, and a visionary. The hunchbacked Palmer, who stood at just over four feet tall, was nevertheless an indomitable force, the ruler of his own bizarre sector of the universe. Armed with only his typewriter, Palmer changed the world as we know it - jumpstarting the flying saucer craze; frightening hundreds of thousands of Americans with 'true' stories of evil denizens of inner earth; and reporting on cover-ups involving extraterrestrials, the paranormal, and secret government agencies. As editor for the ground-breaking sci-fi magazine Amazing Storiesand creator of publications such as Other Worlds, Imagination, Fate, Mystic, Search, Flying Saucers, Hidden World, and Space Age,Palmer pushed the limits and broke new ground in science fiction publishing in the 1940s and 1950s - and was reviled for it by purists who called him 'the man who killed science fiction.' In the first-ever biography devoted to the figure who molded modern geek culture, pulp
Who reads The Man From Mars : Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fred Nadis; Thomas McKeveny
- Publisher
- TarcherPerigee
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399168840
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Body Mind & Spirit, Memoir, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (80 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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