John Carstairs: Space Detective

Frank Belknap Long

Ramble House, 2013 - Fiction - 312 pages

The Surinam Turtle Press edition of John Carstairs: Space Detective is the first complete publication of the John Carstairs stories, appearing more than seventy years after the first story was published and more than sixty years after the first, incomplete, book edition was published. It restores "The Heavy Man" and "Wobblies in the Moon" which were left out of the first compilation of the Carstairs stories in 1949. The stories are: PLANTS MUST GROW SNAPDRAGON PLANTS MUST SLAY SATELLITE OF PERIL THE ETHER ROBOTS THE HEAVY MAN WOBBLIES IN THE MOON THE HOLLOW WORLD

About the author

Richard Allen Lupoff was born on February 21, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the University of Miami. His main work was in science fiction and mystery, but he also wrote humor and satire, nonfiction and reviews. He also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He was best known for co-editing fanzine XERO, which won a Hugo Award in 1963, with his wife Pat Lupoff and Bhob Stewart. In his early career he worked as a technical writer. His first book was a biography published in 1965, Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. In 1967, he began publishing fiction works, One Million Centuries was the first. Some of his other works include Sacred Locomotive Flies (1971), Sword of the Demon (1977), The Triune Man (1976), Space War Blues (1978), Into the Aether (1974), the Twin Planet series, Circumpolar! (1987), and the Sun's End series, Sun's End (1984), and Galaxy's End (1988). He sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms, using Addison E. Steele for Buck Rogers tie-ins, and Ova Hamlet for parodies of famous science fiction authors. Richard Lupoff died on October 22, 2020 in California. He was 85.

Bibliographic information

• Title: John Carstairs: Space Detective
• Author: Frank Belknap Long
• Contributors: Richard A. Lupoff, Gavin L. O'Keefe
• Publisher: Ramble House, 2013
• ISBN: 1605437115, 9781605437118
• Length: 312 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera