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" Lester del Rey wrote, " Even the devoted aficionado — or fan — has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is ", and that the reason for there not being a " full satisfactory definition " is that " there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction.
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Brian Aldiss has called the story a " tawdry illiterate tale " and a " sorry concoction " while Lester del Rey called it " simply dreadful.
Lester del Rey described it simply as " a bad book ," marked more by routine social commentary than by scientific insight or extrapolation.
Lester del Rey, an influential editor ( who had in fact been published in Ellison's first Dangerous Visions anthology ), led a conscious effort to re-assert genre traditions in the 1970s and early 1980s.
In December 1938 Lester del Rey published " Helen O ' Loy " the story of a robot that is so much like a person she falls in love with her creator and becomes his ideal wife.
Lester del Rey characterized the novel as " a good adventure story not of one Brunner's stronger literary efforts.
Lester del Rey's " Evensong " ( the first story in Harlan Ellison's much-acclaimed Dangerous Visions anthology ), tells the story of a fugitive God hunted down across the universe by a vengeful humanity which seeks to " put him in his place ".
Quinn began searching for a replacement editor: writer Lester del Rey turned down the job ( a decision he is reported to have later regretted ) but Quinn was able to engage Larry T. Shaw, an active science fiction fan who had sold a few stories.
In May 1973, Judy-Lynn Benjamin ( Judy-Lynn del Rey since her 1971 marriage to Lester del Rey ) resigned.
Lester del Rey received the novel unfavorably, noting that while the opening half was " minor Zelazny, quite enjoyable ", the conclusion was " rather grim and ugly … dull ".
In 1986, she was posthumously awarded the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, but Lester del Rey declined the award in her name, saying that she would have objected to the award being given to her just because she had recently died.
" Lester del Rey, however, faulted the novel for an arbitrary and ineffective second half, saying " with wonder piled on wonder, the plot simply loses credibility.
He ghost-wrote several juveniles, such as The Runaway Robot ( 1965 ), based on outlines by Lester del Rey, whose name appeared on the books.
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* In Police Your Planet ( 1975 ) by Lester Del Rey, a disgraced, embittered Earth cop is exiled to a Mars that has been thoroughly corrupted by domed city life-he who controls the air machinery, makes the rules.
Latham remarks that this analysis by Harlan Ellison " obscures Ellison's own prominent role – and that of other professional authors and editors such as Judith Merril, Michael Moorcock, Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Donald A. Wollheim – in fomenting the conflict, …"
Despite having sold a short story and several articles under his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym ; it was the editor of that novel, Lester Del Rey, who first demanded he use his real name and then added the hyphen to create the name Lawrence Watt-Evans.
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The chemist Ernest Lester Smith wrote a book Intelligence Came First ( 1975 ) in which he claimed that consciousness is a fact of nature and that the cosmos is grounded in and pervaded by mind and intelligence.
" Musically the group is intentionally crude and aggressively raw ," wrote critic Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone:
This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.
Lester Bangs wrote in 1982, " Van was making holy music even though he thought he was, and us rock critics had made our usual mistake of paying too much attention to the lyrics.
Soderbergh wrote a 1999 book, Getting Away With It, which consists largely of interviews with Lester.
Many authors wrote under this name, though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent:
Criticizing Ehrlich on similar grounds as Simon was Ronald Bailey, a leader in the wise use movement, who wrote a book in 1993 entitled Eco-Scam where he blasted the views of Ehrlich, Lester Brown, Carl Sagan and other environmental theorists.
Ford circles are named after American mathematician Lester R. Ford, Sr., who wrote about them in 1938.
Though she had little prior musical experience ( and had never played drums ), Mori quickly developed a distinctive style: One critic describes her as " a tight, tireless master of shifting asymmetrical rhythm ", while Lester Bangs wrote that she " cuts Sunny Murray in my book " His comment is no small praise, as Murray is widely considered a major free jazz drummer.
As rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in a review of the group's Super Hits album, " A song like ' Soul Deep ' is obvious enough, a patented commercial sound, yet within these strictures it communicates with a depth and sincerity of feeling that holds the attention and brings you back often.
" Musically the group is intentionally crude and aggressively raw ", wrote critic Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone.
As Victor Appleton, he wrote about the enterprising Tom Swift ; as Laura Lee Hope, he is generally credited with writing volumes 4 – 28 and 41 of the Bobbsey Twins ; as Clarence Young, the Motor Boys series ; as Lester Chadwick, the Baseball Joe series ; ; and as Marion Davidson, a number of books including several featuring the Camp Fire Girls.
Charles Mingus wrote an elegy for jazz saxophone great Lester Young called " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", since Young was noted for his ever-present broad-brimmed porkpie.
Lester Bangs later wrote a scathing response to a question posed by Dylan in the song's chorus: " What made them want to come and blow you away ?".
Whilst working on the album, with Lester Mendez, she wrote a song called " Once In Every Lifetime " for the Eragon movie soundtrack.
The rock critic Lester Bangs wrote an appreciative 1973 essay about Incredibly Strange Creatures in which he tries to explain and justify the movie's value:
Of this version of the song, Lester Bangs wrote, " It's one of the most frightening things I've ever heard.
There was a limited edition range of T-shirts with the slogan written in Cantonese developed by a listener, which Lester awarded to people who came up with the most innovative uses of the slogan-winners included a local radio reporter who got the expression into a story ; a man who wrote and recorded a song with the slogan as its title ; a mystery girl, for placing an ad for Lester's show in the small ads section of a local newspaper and a man who developed a website which remains a communal meeting point for the programme's listeners, and is listed in the External Links section below.
In 1997, the Government of Barbados under the Ministry of Education in an attempt to create more spaces for the increase in entrants into Secondary Schools, opened the St. Thomas Secondary School the precursor of the Lester Vaughan Secondary School-named after a very distinguished Barbadian who assisted in the transformation of the Educational Sector as well as wrote the National Pledge of Barbados.
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