But I had no idea I wanted it because I had no idea it existed… It’s called The Mindwarpers, and I bought it but I haven’t read it yet. He’s been dead since before you knew he was alive.” And there was a new Eric Frank Russell. There were some volumes of Eric Frank Russell, and I was looking at them and I thought “Why are you even looking, Jo? It’s not like there’s going to be any new Eric Frank Russell. I was looking along one of the many stalls of second hand books, the same kind where last year I picked up a Poul Anderson I hadn’t read since I was fifteen. I was in Chicago for Chicon 7, the World Science Fiction Convention in 2012… the dealers room has people selling all kinds of things from dragons to spaceships, and also books. She explained why in a funny and delightful post a few months later at Tor.com., titled “The Book You Don’t Know You’re Looking For.” My favorite Eric Frank Russell anecdote occurred while I was selling vintage paperbacks in the Dealer’s room at the 2012 Worldcon here in Chicago (Howard’s detailed report is here.) Jo Walton - who won a Hugo the next day for her novel Among Others - was browsing my books when she suddenly let out a shout of glee. Campbell that he reportedly founded Unknown magazine just to get it into print, and “Allamagoosa’ ( Astounding, May 1955), the first short story to win the Hugo Award. His two most famous works are probably his first novel Sinister Barrier, which so impressed John W. I’m sure there’s a fascinating story behind that - I’ll have to ask Alan next time I run into him at a convention. He wrote only eight novels between 19, plus a posthumous collaboration with Alan Dean Foster, Design for Great-Day (1995), published 17 years after his death. She remained as co-editor of Other Worlds when Palmer returned and also edited his magazines Science Stories and Universe Science Fiction in the late 50s.
“Dear Devil” - rejected by all the major magazines until Bea Mahaffey pulled it from the slush in 1950, while filling in for the hospitalized Ray Palmer at Other Worlds - established Russell as a major name and it also cemented the 26-year-old Mahaffey’s rep as an editor. I read his brilliant short story “Dear Devil” in Terry Carr’s YA anthology Creatures From Beyond in the mid-seventies, when I was in Junior High, and that’s all it took for his name to stick with me. It was published in paperback in 1954.Įric Frank Russell is one of those writers I’m not nearly as well-versed in as I should be. We’re back with our journey through the Ace Double line, this time with one of the earliest volumes in the series: Eric Frank Russell’s SF novel Sentinels of Space, coupled with a Donald Wollheim anthology The Ultimate Invader.
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