Lester del Rey
b. 1915 – d. 1993 · 133 books
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.
Books by Lester del Rey
Amazing Stories Volume 194
Amazing Stories Volume 194
Amazing Stories Volume 147
Amazing Stories Volume 147
Day of the Giants (Bonus Edition)
Space Science Fiction, May 1952
World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976
Attack from Atlantis
Infinity Science Fiction, June
Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957
Let'em Breathe Space!
Let'em Breathe Space!
Amazing Tales Volume 9
Amazing Tales Volume 9
Lester del Rey - Boxed Set
Let 'Em Breathe Space! and Eig
Let 'Em Breathe Space! and Eight More Stories
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
Operation Distress
Operation Distress
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
Sky Is Falling (Jovian Press)
Sky Is Falling (Jovian Press)
The Robot MEGAPACK®: 19 Gear-Grinding Robot Stories!
... and It Comes Out Here
... and It Comes Out Here
Police Your Planet
Tales of Time Travel - Book Five
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK
The Alien MEGAPACK®: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
The Best of Galaxy Volume Five
The First Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack No. 1: Fifteen hundred pages of fiction
Worlds of If Super Pack #2
13th Golden Age of Science Fic
13th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack
Battle on Mercury (Winston Science Fiction) (Volume 12)
Devils and Demons Megapack
Devils and Demons Megapack
Marooned on Mars
Novels (Man Who Lived Forever / No More Stars)
Step to the Stars
The 13th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Lester del Rey (Vol. 2) (Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®s)
The Fantasy MEGAPACK ®
Third Time Travel Megapack
Third Time Travel Megapack
Lester Del Rey, Science Ficcio
Lester Del Rey, Science Ficcion Collection
Mirage for Planet X & Police Your Planet
Ninth Science Fiction Megapack
Ninth Science Fiction Megapack
The Fifth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: Lester del Rey
Tunnel Through Time
Anthology of Sci-Fi V31, the Pulp Writers - Lester del Rey
Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Seven: Lester del Rey
Bonus Sci-Fi Anthology -- 12 M
Bonus Sci-Fi Anthology -- 12 Masterpieces from Golden Era
Lester del Rey Collection
Great Classic Science Fiction Lib/E
Ice City of the Gorgon & When the World Tottered
Lester Del Rey Anthology
Lester Del Rey Anthology
Lester del Rey Collection - Includes Dead Ringer, Let 'em Breathe Space, Pursuit, Victory, No Strings Attached, & Police Your Planet
The Life Watch & Creatures of the Abyss
The Military MEGAPACK ®
The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
4 Sci-fi Books by Lester Del R
4 Sci-fi Books by Lester Del Rey
Robots and Magic
The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
The Lester del Rey Scifi Collection
War and Space
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
Zvezdnaya politsiya
The best of Lester del Rey
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
Mission to the Moon
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Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction [9 stories]
Friends, robots, countrymen
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction
Baker's dozen -- 13 short science fiction novels
Lester Del Rey Cassette
Lester Del Rey Cassette
Die besten Stories / von Lester DelRey.
The golden years of science fiction -- fourth series
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series
The Golden Years of Science Fiction
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!
The Great Science Fiction Stories. Volume 7, 1945
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Das elfte Gebot ] [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1981] Del Rey, Lester
Isaac Asimov Presents The Grea
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)
Jaque mate psíquico
Isaac Asimov Presents The Grea
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)
Las Lágrimas Pueden Tardar
Microcosmic Tales
The world of science fiction, 1926-1976
ʻAtsabim
ʻAtsabim
Isaac Asimov presents the great science fiction stories -- Volume 1, 1939
Science Fiction of the forties
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- fifth annual collection
Donald a Wollheim Presents the
Donald a Wollheim Presents the 1977 Annual World's Best Sf
The Early Del Rey Vol 1
The Early Del Rey Vol 2
Best science fiction stories of the year -- fourth annual collection
Early Del Rey
Fantastic science-fiction art,
Fantastic science-fiction art, 1926-1954
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Science Fiction Roll of Honor
Best science fiction stories of the year -- third annual collection
Where Do We Go From Here? Book 1
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year -- second annual collection
Best SF Stories of the Year 2
Gods and Golems
Gods and Golems (Science Fiction Stories)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two A
Best science fiction of the ye
Best science fiction of the year ; fourth annual collection
Eleventh Comandment
Invasion of the Robots
The man without a planet
The man without a planet
The infinite worlds of maybe
The Runaway Robot
Prisoners of space
Tunnel Thourgh Time
Tunnel Thourgh Time
The scheme of things
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
The mysterious sky
The mysterious sky
Novelets of Science Fiction (B
Novelets of Science Fiction (Belmont SF, L92-567)
outpost of jupiter
Rocks and what they tell us
Rocks and what they tell us (A
Rocks and what they tell us (A Whitman learn about book)
The mysterious earth
day of the giants
day of the giants
Cave of Spears
The cave of spears
The cave of spears
Nerves 1ST Edition Ballantine
Nerves 1ST Edition Ballantine 151
Assignment in Tomorrow
Star Short Novels (Little Men / For I Am a Jealous People! / To Here and the Easel)
Battle on Mercury
The mysterious planet
A pirate flag for Monterey
A pirate flag for Monterey
Rocket Jockey
It's your atomic age
It's your atomic age
"...and some were human"
"...and some were human"
Badge of Infamy
Moon of mutiny
Mortals & Monsters
Mortals & Monsters
Mortals and monsters
Rocket Jockey (A Science Ficti
Rocket Jockey (A Science Fiction novel)
World of Sci Fic 1926-76
World of Sci Fic 1926-76