Lester Del ReyLester del Rey (1915-1993) was an American science fiction writer and editor whose career spanned the formative decades of the genre. Active in pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s and later influential as an editor, del Rey helped shape the ton and direction of mid-twentieth-century science fiction. His fiction often combined scientific curiosity with humour and social observation, contributing to the evolution of speculative literature during the Golden Age. Read More Read Less