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The works of Lester del Rey Ana Leonard Knapp best known as Lester del Rey started off his career just as any other handful of other writers. " When he became disgusted with the low quality of many science fiction stories published in his day and protested that even he could write a better story." Lester del Rel, encouraged by his girlfriend wrote "The Faithful" and sent it off to John W. Campbell, an editor. Encouraged by the $40 payment ( a generous amount in 1938) that he had received from the editor, Lester del Rey began his career as a science fiction author and editor. During the Golden Age, Del Rey was one of the best known and recognized science fiction writers and editors. He produced a numerous amount of fantasy and science fiction, both short and novel length, but he gained more fame in his role of editor than in the role of editor. "From the late 1940s onward, del Rey also did a considerable amount of work as an editor, thae role that eventually make him quite influential.". In the late 9310s Del Rey first began publishing in pulp magazines at the dawn of the Golden Age. "In the 1950s, del Rey was one of the three leadingscience fictiontion witers witing for adolecents along with Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton". During this time some of his fiction was published under the name Eric Van Tin Lhin. Lester del Ray also began to edit for several pulp magazines and then for book publishers Del Ray was most sucessful editing for Ballantine Books with his fourth wife, Jude and founded a popular fiction imprint with her at Ballantine. Lastly one of the several events that made all his hard work be worth was the 1990 Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction and Fanatsy writers of America for lifetime achievements in science fiction and /or fantsay. He was very desrciptive in his writings and his words smoothly flowed.An example is this paragraph of one of his stories"Over The Top". "The sky was lousy with stars- nastly little pinpoints of cold hostility that had neither the remoteness of space nor the friendly warmth of Earth. They din't twinkle honestly, but titteredand snickereddown. And there wasn't even the moon. Dave Mannen knew better, but his eyes looked for the low scudding forms of Deimos and phobos because of all the romanticist who'd written them." http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lester_del_rey