Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

Arthur Lloyd Eshbach (pseudonym: LA Eshbach; born June 20, 1910 in Palm, Pennsylvania, † 23 October 2003 in Myerstown, Pennsylvania) was an American science fiction author and editor.

Life

Eshbach was born the fifth of six children of Katheryn and Oswin Eshbach. He grew up in Reading. In 1926, he left 15 - year school, to work, and discovered in local book shop, the first issue of Amazing Stories. Science Fiction bound him henceforth.

He started to write fan mail, wrote soon own stories and on October 14, 1929, he managed a short story in Science Wonder Stories to sell. Thus began his writing career. Amazing, Astounding, Weird, Startling and Wonder were the magazines who accompanied him on this journey. His first SF title was The Voice from the Ether, and was published in 1931 in the magazine Amazing. In this year he also became editor of the magazine Marvel Tales and The Galleon. But it was only a preliminary first short stint as publisher.

As a member of First Fandom, he took an active share in the evolving scene in Fandom. In 1939 he attended the first Worldcon and subsequently took continue for decades at many different conventions in part.

In 1946, the form of a book in science fiction and this inspired him to go into the publishing business. He founded Fantasy Press and published in the following works by EE Smith, Jack Williamson and a few others. Fantasy Press was one of the first publishers published which SF books in hardcover. Eshbach was with this small publisher not the first small publishers, but very successful ( although he eventually went bankrupt ).

The first book that he was moved Space Hounds of IPC by EE Smith and his monetary use for it was around $ 80. In order to finance the publications Eshbach came up with the idea of the signed, numbered edition. An innovation to this day found numerous imitators.

His most famous publication was certainly Lensman series. His success was was instrumental in that larger publishers turned toward the genre. Fantasy Press in 1950, after publication of 52 books, dissolved, and in 1952 he founded the short-lived publishing Polaris Press where he published another 2 books.

Eshbach watched the Publisher scene exactly. Gnome, Shasta, Grant, Prime, FPCI, Arkham House and how the publishers of the first hour were all called. In his memoirs, Over My Shoulder: Reflections on a Science Fiction Era, published in 1982, they play the main role. With them he draws a world of the early future novel fans, the layman and publisher of science fiction author.

Also, the term speculative, fiction should go back to Arthur L. Eshbach. In attempt to separate the emerging new genre in science fiction and fantasy, Robert A. Heinlein and Eshbach made ​​the proposal to designate the latter as speculative, fiction. This would have saved the publishers from having to rename the label, which were usually referred to throughout with SF and then so could mean both. This proposal but not prevailed. In 1947 he published with Of Worlds Beyond the first secondary work of science fiction. Robert A. Heinlein, John Taine, Jack Williamson, AE van Vogt, Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., L. Sprague de-camp, and John W. Campbell, Jr. passed in seven treatises tips and insider information for SF writers and offer the reader with valuable background information on the creation of SF texts. Even today it is still used by many teachers for teaching purposes.

Most of his novels came late in his career as a writer. The last one, Scroll Of Lucifer, was released in 1990.

He was 1958-1962 publishers of church literature and from 1962 until his retirement in 1975, he was a salesman for the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.

After his retirement he became a preacher in the Evangelical Congregational denomination and the Mount Culmen Evangelical Congregational Church near Bowmansville, Lancaster (New York), allocated. The following year he served as pastor of the First Evangelical Congregational in Reading and 1977, he completed a year at Trinity EC Church in Womelsdorf.

Cris Owen, a former member of the Church of Scientology, brings Athur Eshbach in his essay The Corruption of Scientology - How "The Road to Total Freedom " was paid with gold " with Ron Hubbard in connection He called Arthur Eshbach as allies Hubbard and. leads him among others as a witness for the statement that the statement that " ... a man, if he really wanted to make a million dollars on the best out on the path to start a religion. " on Hubbard and not to George Orwell, is due. As proof of the entity in question is cited in Eshbachs memoirs.

As an active member of First Fandom Eshbach was guest of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1949 and at the World Fantasy Convention 1995.

When he died aged 93 on 23 October 2003, he left his son, Daniel R., five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Awards (excerpt)

  • 3rd Annual Collectors Awards 1990: Lifetime Collector Award
  • Compton Crook Award 1985: 9th place for The Land Beyond the Gate

German Bibliography (excerpt)

  • Avenger from Jupiter ( Mutineers Of Space, 1939) Pabel Utopia 97 ( 1957)

English bibliography (excerpt)

Gates of Lucifer series

  • The Land Beyond The Gate (1984 ) novel
  • The Armlet of the Gods (1986 ) novel
  • The Sorceress Of Scath (1988 ) novel
  • The Scroll Of Lucifer (1990 ) novel

Series Subspace

  • No. 2 Subspace Encounters with Edward E. Smith ( 1983) novel
  • The Garden of Fear and Other Stories of the Bizarre and Fantastic (1945 ) Collection
  • Tyrant of Time (1955 ) Collection
  • The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1: 1926-1935 (1974 ) Collection
  • Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing (1947 ) Non Fiction
  • Over My Shoulder: Reflections on a Science Fiction Era (1983 ) Non Fiction
  • A Most Uncommon Man: EE " Doc" Smith ( 1998) Non Fiction
  • The Gray Plague (1930 ) Story
  • The Invisible Destroyer (1930 ) Story
  • The Voice from the Ether (1931 ) Story (also A Voice from the Ether )
  • The Valley of Titans (1931 ) Story
  • The Tyrant of Time (1932 ) Story (also The Time Conqueror )
  • Light from Infinity (1932 ) Story
  • The Man with the Hourglass (1934 ) Story
  • The Brain of Ali Khan (1934 ) Story
  • The Kongdom of Thought (1935 ) Story
  • The Meteor Miners (1935 ) Story
  • Isle of the Undead (1936 )
  • The Outpost on Ceres (1936 ) Story
  • Isle of the Ordeal (1936 )
  • Dust ( 1939) Story
  • Three Wise Men (1939 ) Story
  • The God did Science Made (1939 ) Story (also The Place of Orchids )
  • Singing Blades (1940 ) Story
  • The Cauldron of Life ( 1940) Story ( also The Cauldron )
  • The Hyper Sense (1941 ) Story
  • God of Light ( 1944) Story ( also The Light from Beyond )
  • The City of Dread (1955 ) Story
  • Spaceways Incident ( 1955) Story
  • Expert Assistance (1957 ) Story
  • Murder by Hex (1958 ) Story
  • The Armlet of the Gods (1986 )
  • Sister Abigail 's Collection (1988 ) Story
  • Wodan 's Army (1989 ) Story
  • The Wanderer (1934 ) poem
  • The Martian Cry (1934 ) poem
  • Lunar Doom (1935 ) poem
  • Letter ( 1931) essay in Wonder Stories (1931 )
  • Introduction ( 1964) essay in World Of Beyond ( 1964)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Author
  • Americans
  • Born 1910
  • Died in 2003
  • Man
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