The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey

Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer. A finalist for the 2014 Locus Award in nonfiction.

"Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer's practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely."
--Jerome Clark, Fortean Times

"Fred Nadis's insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing." --Michael Saler, The Washington Post

"One of science fiction's greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography." --Publishers Weekly

"The sci-fi pulps made a lasting imprint, as Fred Nadis shows in his entertaining "The Man From Mars"...Mr. Nadis does not take sides in what was once a civil war among the fans but reminds them that there was more than one mighty editor back in the Golden Age."
-Tom Shippey, Wall Street Journal

"The Man From Mars is smart and engrossing, and it expands our understanding of the nuts and carnival barkers who have done so much to cultivate America's homegrown mythology."
--Jesse Walker, The American Conservative

"Lucidly written and unfailingly lively, The Man from Mars is a biography worthy of its subject." --Fate magazine