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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.
You will find no shortage of robots and strange religions in this collection of stories from Lester Del Rey. As with any collection, there are stories ranging from mildly interesting to absolute gems. My favorites included:Helen O’Loy - Robotics experts Dave and Phil create a female robot complete with emotions and decide to name her Helen O’Loy, a derivative of Helen of Alloy, which is a pun on Helen of Troy. The only problem is that she falls in love with Dave, making his life miser You will find no shortage of robots and strange religions in this collection of stories from Lester Del Rey.
As with any collection, there are stories ranging from mildly interesting to absolute gems. My favorites included:Helen O’Loy - Robotics experts Dave and Phil create a female robot complete with emotions and decide to name her Helen O’Loy, a derivative of Helen of Alloy, which is a pun on Helen of Troy. The only problem is that she falls in love with Dave, making his life miserableat least at first.The Coppersmith - Industrious elf Ellowan Coppersmith emerges from a long sleep in the Adirondacks looking for work among humans only to find that his skills in repairing copper and brass items are no longer in high demand. Worse, mankind has developed horrid combustion engines. Perhaps Ellowan could use his skills to bring an eventual end to thatHereafter, Inc. Righteous and judgmental Phineas Theophilus Potts returns to work after a long illness, forcing himself to be kind to the disgusting sinners around him, until he begins to realize that something is amiss.
Some of his colleagues had died before his illness, so what are they doing here? Perhaps the question should be, what is Phineas doing there?The Wings of Night - Two astronauts land on the moon to repair their ship and encounter a bizarre but benevolent alien named Lhin. Through trial and error, the astronauts find a way to communicate with the alien and learn that Lhin is the last of his kind, but with a small supply of copper could repopulate his species.For I Am a Jealous People - A preacher’s faith is shaken when aliens attack the Earth claiming to be on a holy mission from the Lord Almighty to eradicate humans from the planet. This is one of three novellas in the collection.Vengeance is Mine - A robot named Sam is left behind on the moon when the humans are evacuated to Earth. Shortly thereafter, Sam notices bursts of light on the Earth’s surface before the planet goes completely dark. Believing that aliens had attacked, Sam finds his way back to the planet only to eventually learn the truth behind the death of mankind. The last of three novellas.
Much like THE BEST OF DAMON KNIGHT, I find the 'best' in the title to be doing a bit more work than the one in, say, THE BEST OF C. Is it because sf writers who became better known as sf editors and publishers were more middling than the pure writers?
Or maybe it's that, as publishers, their personal biases had more weight?I suspect it might be more of the latter than the former. Del Rey can certainly write a good sf story. 'Helen O'Loy' deserves its repeated anthology presence, but so Much like THE BEST OF DAMON KNIGHT, I find the 'best' in the title to be doing a bit more work than the one in, say, THE BEST OF C. Is it because sf writers who became better known as sf editors and publishers were more middling than the pure writers? Or maybe it's that, as publishers, their personal biases had more weight?I suspect it might be more of the latter than the former. Del Rey can certainly write a good sf story.
'Helen O'Loy' deserves its repeated anthology presence, but some of the stories in the back half of the book are surprisingly kickass - 'For I Am a Jealous People' and 'Vengeance Is Mine' have certain themes in common, and are also good.One big drawback of the collection as a whole can be seen in Del Rey's own afterword: he identifies 'an automatic element of drama and strong feeling attached to the last of a kind.' Too many of the stories in the collection trade on this theme, however solid they are as individual pieces.Overall, 2.5 stars, rounded up. Lester del Rey's the kind of writer I might've read in my early teens (but didn't) & then decided that he represented the kind of SF that all SF seemed to me to be at the time: sortof interesting but not that well written or experimental. I wd've then moved on - remembering him w/ some affection but not in any hurry to read more.Now that I'm 44 yrs past my early teens, del Rey still strikes me that way but I've read so many other things by now that I can respect del Rey just for being what Lester del Rey's the kind of writer I might've read in my early teens (but didn't) & then decided that he represented the kind of SF that all SF seemed to me to be at the time: sortof interesting but not that well written or experimental.
I wd've then moved on - remembering him w/ some affection but not in any hurry to read more.Now that I'm 44 yrs past my early teens, del Rey still strikes me that way but I've read so many other things by now that I can respect del Rey just for being what he was: a somewhat generic, but still inspired, SF writer.The history of SF, in the US at least, seems to be often grouped in periods determined by the tastes of the influential magazine & anthology editors of the time. In this case, del Rey falls fairly firmly in the John W. Campbell / Astounding Science Fiction era. These stories range from 1938 to 1964.There're alotof robots. I like del Rey's robot stories.
But even more important to me personally, there's alotof picking away at the religious fanaticism of the ilk that I grew up w/. 'For I am a Jealous People!' Was one of my favorites here.
Extraterrestrials attack Earth w/ the apparent intention of wiping out humanity. It's discovered that they, in fact, worship the same GOD that the Reverend Amos Strong, the protagonist, but that GOD is on their side & has instructed & empowered them to wipe out humanity, the great sinner.
What a moral dilemma for the reverend!These stories contain much of the content that helped shape the ethics & concerns of young boys (primarily but not entirely) growing up in the 40s, 50s, & 60s - humanity wiping itself out w/ atomic warfare (or whatever), eg. & I was right there w/ them. This book really didn't do it for me and I'm somewhat disappointed by that. I had heard of his novels and his editorial influence for some time, but these short stories got to be so predictable that I didn't even finish the book. The first story, 'Helen O'Loy,' about a female robot who wants to be a human-type wife, is fairly decent and somewhat original for the times. However, Del Rey devolves into telling stories where the protagonist is the last of his kind of earth and he is so 'weary.'
We'v This book really didn't do it for me and I'm somewhat disappointed by that. I had heard of his novels and his editorial influence for some time, but these short stories got to be so predictable that I didn't even finish the book. The first story, 'Helen O'Loy,' about a female robot who wants to be a human-type wife, is fairly decent and somewhat original for the times. However, Del Rey devolves into telling stories where the protagonist is the last of his kind of earth and he is so 'weary.' We've got the last elf, the last robot (do they really get weary?), and so on. At some point, there will probably be the last grasshopper.
I don't know. It got pretty boring pretty fast. I guess the author was at his best when he was serving as editor and publisher of his own imprint, Del Rey Books.
Not recommended. Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series, and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.aka Philip St.
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