Lester Del Rey

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  • Bibliography:
    75 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1938
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 75 titles

  • Helen O'Loy

    in The Best of Lester del Rey
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  • The Coppersmith

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  • The Day is Done

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  • Hereafter, Inc.

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  • The Wings of Night

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    For the Martian race, working for humans meant a kind of slavery -- toiling to extract radioactives from Mars for the benefit of humans back on Earth. They were to be paid barely enough to survive. And the exploitation would continue for generation a...

  • Into Thy Hands

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  • And It Comes Out Here

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  • The Monster

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  • The Years Draw Nigh

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  • Rocket Jockey

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    IT WASN'T HIS SHIP, OR HIS JOB, OR HIS PROBLEM... ...but suddenly Jerry Blaine was behind the controls of Earth's Last Hope and blasting off for the galaxy's most savage space race. His brother Dick had planned to be the rocket jockey in the famil...

  • Instinct

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  • For I Am a Jealous People

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  • Superstition

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    Superstition is a dangerous thing; it's always extremely hard to fight. But nobody had ever had quite so hard a time with superstitions as these interstellar warriors -- because the superstitions worked...and that made them really dangerous!...

  • The Keepers of the House

    in The Best of Lester del Rey
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    King was a dog who had lost his master. But where was Doc, in this ruined world that once belonged to humanity?...

  • Nerves

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    At the great atomic plant in Kimberly, a congressional committee makes a surprise inspection raising the level of the men's tension even higher than it has been. By midday there have already been minor accidents but in the giant nuclear converters wh...

  • Little Jimmy

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  • The Seat of Judgment

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  • The Sky Is Falling

    Dave stared around the office. He went to the window and stared upwards at the crazy patchwork of the sky. For all he knew, in such a sky there might be cracks. In fact, as he looked, he could make out a rift, and beyond that a ... hole ... a small p...

  • Vengeance is Mine

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  • The Runaway Robot

    • The robot named Rex had been bought as a companion for Paul when the Simpsons decided to pioneer on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter...a rough, dangerous satellite where a small boy needed a strong, intelligent robot to protect him. By the time P...

  • Evensong

    in Dangerous Visions #1

  • Early Del Rey

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  • The Eleventh Commandment

  • The Early Del Rey Vol 1

    LESTER DEL REY The fascinating autobiography of a farm boy from Minnesota who followed his imagination to the typewriter, to the pulps...and eventually to the top ranks of sf greats. Illustrated by 12 superb stories from 1937-1942. On a bet from ...

  • The Early Del Rey Vol 2

  • Attack from Atlantis

  • Police Your Planet

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the ...

  • The Mysterious Planet

  • Outpost of Jupiter



  • Moon of Mutiny

  • Pstalemate

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  • Best of Lester del Rey

    Science fiction's most protean personality -- writer, editor, critic, publisher -- sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural!...

  • Once Upon a Time

    This is a collection of fairy tales from a wide range of contemporary authors. Each story is accompanied by a colour illustration and should appeal to readers of all ages. The authors featured in this collection include Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, ...

  • I Am Tomorrow

    Thomas Blake has just become president. He has plans to change the world. To be a benevolent leader that will give the power to the people. But when he is wrenched out of his body and finds himself in the body of a rebel assassin who's job is to kill...

  • Badge Of Infamy

    The computer seemed to work as it should. The speed was within acceptable limits. He gave up trying to see the ground and was forced to trust the machinery designed for amateur pilots. The flare bloomed, and he yanked down on the little lever. It cou...

  • Victory

    It seemed Earth was a rich, and undefended planet in a warring, hating galaxy. Things can be deceptive though; children playing can be quite rough - but that ain't war, friend! Lester Del Rey weaves a fantastic science ficiton tale worthy of his ...

  • Thunder in Space and Other Stories

    While Russia continues to remain wary of American attack, America has grown more suspicious of Russian activities. And the rest of the world is stricken with the painful knowledge that they shall inevitably be caught in the crossfire …At the back o...

  • Robots and Magic

  • The Lester Del Rey Scifi Collection



  • Mars Confidential & Other Sci-Fi Pulp Masterpieces

    Imagine 178 pages of vintage, hardcore, pulp science fiction with no holds barred, and you have in an instant the essence of this compilation.It was a privilege to search for and find such lost masterpieces as Master of the Moondog, Let them breathe ...

  • Dead Ringer

    There was nothing, especially on Earth, which could set him free -- the truth least of all!...

  • No Strings Attached

    Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with -- ...

  • Pursuit

    Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life. Something happened during that time, he's certain of it. Something important, important enough that people are trying to kill him to make sure he doesn't remember what it was. Can Ha...

  • Lester del Rey Collection - Includes Dead Ringer, Let 'em Breathe Space, Pursuit, Victory, No Strings Attached, & Police Your Planet

    Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was a renowned American Science Fiction writer in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He was awarded several Awards for his work in this field, including the Skylark Award, the Balrog Special Award and the Grand Master Awa...

  • Five Short Science Fiction Stories

    This is a collection of five fantastic and short science fiction stories by Lester del Rey. The stories include: (1) Dead Ringer (There was nothing, especially on Earth, which could set him free -- the truth least of all!), (2) No Strings Attached (P...

  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V31, the Pulp Writers - Lester del Rey

    The Anthology of Sci-Fi V31 is a collection of eight Sci-fi stories from one of the best writers of the past century, Lester Del Rey. Included are: Let'Em Breathe Space, The Sky Is Falling, Badge of Infamy, Dead Ringer, No Strings Attached, Police Yo...

  • Battle on Mercury

    When sun storms periodically swept Mercury with waves of solar fire, radiation and electricity, it was usual for the authorities to order evacuation of the small mining communities on the side of the planet that faced the Sun. But as time for the mos...

  • Marooned on Mars

    Chuck Svenson was a citizen of the Moon -- and proud of it! To him, Earth, with its heavy atmosphere, even though it was the "mother" planet, was not the best place in the universe to live. As he rocketed back home from a blast off at a point high ...

  • Rockets to Nowhere

    Young Danny Cross couldn't understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had to do with the reported "death" of one of America's leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White ...



  • Day of the Giants

    Leif Svensen's neighbor, come to warn him that the farmers were going to take violent action against his dog for killing their livestock, mentioned that he'd seen an angel the night before. "Big blonde woman on a white horse, singing loud enough to r...

  • The Scheme of Things

    He lived simultaneously in the present, deep past, and far future -- and death threatened each life! Was it possible that Mike Strong, assistant professor of logic at Kane University, had the rare ability to carry memories of other lives back and for...

  • Mission to the Moon

    Jim Stanley, who had helped to build the first space station, was thrilled to return to it as a member of the crew selected to erect the ships which would fulfill Man's age-long dream to reach the Moon. A total effort was being made to surpass the pr...

  • Step to the Stars

    “Only a decade away!" Yes, according to the well-known author of STEP TO THE STARS, this remarkable age that has produced rocket ships, guided missiles and hydrogen bombs will have a space station circling the Earth within the next ten years. World...

  • The Man Without a Planet

    He was PRTSAC: Permanent Resident Through a Special Act of Congress. A set of initials, a title unique in history. And a human being -- the most homesick human being in history. Fred Hunter was the permanent resident of the space station...the dough...

  • Tunnel Through Time

    Go backward through space-time into prehistory? It seemed fantastic, but the machine -- invented by Bob's father in connection with his research on the interrelation of time and gravity -- actually exists.Bob and his friend Pete are anxious to be the...

  • A Pirate Flag for Monterey

    In 1819, Hypolite Bouchard, a corsair with a license from the newly independent country of Argentina to harass Spain's possessions in the New World, decided to make a raid on the California colony. At this time, Monterey -- having successfully surv...

  • Rocket from Infinity

    When Pete Mason's father is badly hurt in a space mining accident, eighteen-year-old Pete suspects that the injury was no accident -- that it was caused by his family's rivals, Rachel Barry and her children. Even so, when Pete receives an urgent call...

  • The Best of Galaxy Science Fiction

    Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. ...

  • . and it Comes out Here

    There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn’t always so!...

  • Preferred Risk

    PREFERRED RISK first appeared in 1955. It won the Galaxy Magazine / Simon & Schuster contest for 1955's best work of science fiction. The Company, a powerful, efficient, and thoroughly monstrous insurance organization, controlled the entire world...

  • The Dwindling Years

    He didn’t expect to be last -- but neither did he anticipate the horror of being the first!...

  • The Faithful

    Humans have surgically, genetically, and chemically bio-engineered dogs and apes until they are sentient, then gone ahead and destroyed their society with another world war. The story is told from the point of view of Hungor Beowulf IV, a descendent ...

  • Fifth Freedom

    "Fifth Freedom" is a classic science fiction story originally published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1943 issue....

  • Alien

    Larry Cross had all the bad luck. The sloop he was sailing around Africa was hit by an alien spaceship as it crashed into the ocean, leaving him adrift on an emergency raft with Al Simmonds. And they when the managed to make it to safety, they found ...

  • Dark Mission

    He came on a mission -- came from very far away on a horribly important mission. He knew that with a certainly. But what he didn't know, what he'd forgotten, was where he came from and why he was here. A classic science fiction story first published ...

  • Anything

    He called himself Anything, the stranger dressed all in brown, when he strolled into Carlsburg. The farming community had never seen anything like him before. He would do anything -- any job, no matter how simple or complex -- for a meal and a place ...

  • Done Without Eagles

    Court Perry'd lost his space-ticket -- the greatest of the pilots no longer allowed to pilot! But without that ticket -- with certain other handicaps -- he was still the best of them all....

  • Kindness

    Homo intelligens -- intelligent man -- was now the master of the world. Danny was only a left-over, the last normal man in a world of supermen, hating the fact that he had been born, and that his mother had died at his birth to leave him only lonelin...

  • Mine Host, Mine Adversary

    It had been nearly fifteen years since the civilian rocket field had seen more than local traffic. Now, in spite of the bustle of emergency attendants and crews, the field buildings looked forlorn -- and deserted. Even some of the posters were of vin...

  • The One-Eyed Man

    In a future where everyone is implanted with the same knowledge, the Dictator has created a humanity of ruthless zombies. But the one who can see the truth must protect himself at all costs -- because in this world of the blind, the one-eyed man isn'...

  • The Renegade

    Evolution can play strange tricks -- and when playboy Lane fled society for the African jungle in the yeras before World War II, he discovered a very different tribe of gorillas, who thought and acted better than the men he had known in America....

  • Shadows of Empire

    As the battalions of Earth withdraw from Mars, in the fading days of an interplanetary empire, puzzles remain. The V’nothi had disappeared before the Pyramids were put up, leaving only pictures of themselves in the ruins of Mars, looking like big, ...

  • A Code For Sam

    Life can be hard on a mining planet, even for a robot named Sam. Hazardous work conditions. Hostile natives. Humans. Sam needs a code to live by......

  • Boiling Point

  • Let 'Em Breathe Space

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    Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned. Lester Del Rey proves his sci-fi genius with one of his better futuristic stori...

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Lester Del Rey has published 75 books.

Lester Del Rey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Boiling Point, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Lester Del Rey, Helen O'Loy, was published in January 1938.

No. Lester Del Rey does not write books in series.
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