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The Best of Lester Del Rey
by
Lester del Rey,
Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)
This collection of classic stories by writer, editor, critic, and cofounder of Del Rey Books Lester del Rey includes tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, and the supernatural.
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 6th 2000
by Del Rey
(first published 1978)
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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...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...more
I've had this book sitting around as a "briefcase read" for several years. Lester Del Rey just doesn't do it for me. I enjoyed a non-fiction book he wrote, but this collection of short stories had several I rate "not very good." It does help to remind me that there is a big gap between the giants (Heinlein, Bradbury, Niven, Zelazny) of SF short stories and the third tier. Del Rey remains famous, but not because of his short fiction.
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...more
Stephen King favorably mentioned author for science-fiction stories written in post-war WWII in Chapter one of King's 1983 Berkeley paperback edition of Danse Macabre.
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Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) 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.
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