Raymond A. Palmer

Raymond Arthur Palmer, also Alfred Ray or Ray Palmer, (* August 1, 1910 Milwaukee; † August 15, 1977 Portage, Wisconsin) was an influential American author and editor of science fiction.

Between 1938 and 1949 he edited Amazing Stories, then he brought out the magazine Fate, and Mystic, Search and Flying Saucers. He also published several books on spiritualism as Oahspe. A New Bible and UFOs such as The Coming of the Saucers (together with Kenneth Arnold). Palmer wrote still numerous stories in fantasy and science fiction genre, which often published under a pseudonym.

In addition to Hugo Gernsback Palmer created one of the first SF Fan Clubs, the Science Correspondence Club, whose first meeting took place in early 1930. As a club member served the magazine The Comet, which was later renamed in Cosmology.

In the 1940s he supported - apparently for purely commercial reasons - the dubious theses Richard Sharpe Shaver, who became known as Shaverismus what the sharp criticism of Forrest J. Ackerman called forth, who saw a general damage to the genre of science fiction in it.