Early life
Gallun (rhymes with "balloon") was born inCareer
Gallun wrote his first two stories, "The Space Dwellers" and "The Crystal Ray" (both published in 1929), at age 16. He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. "Old Faithful" (1934) was his first noted story. "The Gentle Brain" was published in "Science Fiction Quarterly" under the pseudonym Arthur Allport. His first book, ''People Minus X'', was published in 1957 by Simon & Schuster, followed by ''The Planet Strappers ''in 1961 (Pyramid). The Ballantine collection issued in 1978, ''The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun'', provides a selection of his early work. Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; the award was later renamed The Raymond Z. Gallun Award. His pen names include Dow Elstar, E.V. Raymond, William Callahan, and Arthur Allport.Death and posthumous work
Gallun died of a heart attack at his home in the Forest Hills neighborhood ofBibliography
Novels
* ''Passport to Jupiter'' (1951) * ''People Minus X'' (1957) * ''The Planet Strappers'' (1961) * ''The Eden Cycle'' (1974) * ''Skyclimber'' (1981) * ''Bioblast'' (1985)Short fiction
*"The Space Dwellers" (1929) *"The Crystal Ray" (1929) *"The Revolt of the Starmen" (1932)Free SF on line *"Old Faithful" (1934) *"Avalanche" (1935, as by Dow Elstar) *"The Son of Old Faithful" (1935) *"Child of the Stars" (1936) *"Seeds of the Dusk" (1938) *"The Machine That Thought" (1939, as by William Callahan) *"A Step Farther Out" (1950) *"Big Pill" (1952) *"Apollo at Go" (1963) *'' The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun'' (collection, 1978)Nonfiction
*References
* Jeffrey Elliot. Interview with Raymond Z. Gallun, ''External links
* * * * 1911 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers Novelists from Wisconsin People from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers People from Queens, New York {{US-sf-writer-stub