Raymond Z. Gallun

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Raymond Z. Gallun


Born
in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, The United States
March 22, 1911

Died
April 02, 1994

Genre


Aka William Callahan, Arthur Allport.

Raymond Zinke Gallun (March 22, 1911 - April 2, 1994) was an early science fiction writer.

Gallun (rhymes with "balloon") was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He lived a drifter's existence, working a multitude of jobs around the world in the years leading up to World War II. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. "Old Faithful" (1934) was his first noted story. "The Gentle Brain" was published in "Science Fiction Quarterly" under the pseudonym Arthur Allport. Another of his pseudonyms was William Callahan.
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A First Glimpse And Other S...

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The Planet Strappers

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The Eden Cycle

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The Eternal Wall

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Asteroid of Fear

3.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions
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The 25th Golden Age of Scie...

3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2015
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The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun

3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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Stamped Caution

3.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions
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People Minus X

3.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions
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Big Pill

3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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“Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do.”
Raymond Z. Gallun, The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun

“Why It had exposed itself thus erect, I don't know.  Maybe fear of being hunted confused It, or It trusted the long range for safety, or It didn't need secrecy anymore, and wanted – in Its assurance of power? – to peer around.  But of such a multiple Question”
Raymond Z. Gallun, A First Glimpse And Other Science Fiction Classics

“Why It had exposed itself thus erect, I don't know.  Maybe fear of being hunted confused It, or It trusted the long range for safety, or It didn't need secrecy anymore, and wanted – in Its assurance of power? – to peer around.  But of such a multiple Question Mark, who could say?”
Raymond Z. Gallun, A First Glimpse And Other Science Fiction Classics

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