The Seventh Galaxy Reader
Stories from Galaxy Magazine: 1960-1963.

Introduction / Frederik Pohl.		
For love / Algis Budrys.		
Come into my cellar / Ray Bradbury.		
The tail-tied kings / Avram Davidson.		
Crime machine / Robert Bloch.		
Return engagement / Lester Del Rey.		
Earthmen bearing gifts / Frederic Brown.		
Rainbird / R.A. Lafferty.		
Three portraits and a prayer / Frederik Pohl.		
Something bright / Zenna Henderson.		
On the gem planet / Cordwainer Smith.		
The deep down dragon / Judith Merril.		
The king of the city / Keith Laumer.		
The beat cluster / Fritz Leiber.		
An old fashioned bird Christmas / Margaret St. Clair.		
The big pat boom / Damon Knight.
Science fiction, anthology
Frederik Pohl, Algis Budrys, Ray Bradbury, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Lester del Rey, Frederic Brown, R. A. Lafferty, Zenna Henderson, Cordwainer Smith, Keith Laumer, Fritz Leiber, Margaret St. Clair, Damon Knight
Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.  His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven.  He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family.  As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians.  His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old.  In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact.  In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them.  He married his first wife in 1940.  In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent.  During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945.  He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945.  In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf.

In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine.  In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines.  In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books.  He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978.  He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984.  He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois. || Algis Budrys (Algirdas Jonas Budrys) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. || Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. 

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. 

In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 2004. 

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  [1]: http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html || Avram Davidson was born in Yonkers, New York.  He was educated in public schools, then studied anthropology at New York University before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942.   He served as a hospital corpsman (medic), first with the Naval Air Corps, and then with the Fifth Marines.  After the war, he travelled in England, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean before returning the the U.S. to resume his education.  He continued his education at several schools, but never earned a degree.  In 1950 he returned to the U.S. to study at an agricultural school, then went to Israel to become a shepherd.  He returned to New York City shortly after and began his writing career as a Talmudic scholar, publishing short stories and several essays in Orthodox Jewish Life beginning in 1949 and in Commentary beginning in 1952, under the name A. A. Davidson.  He was very active in the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City during this period.  His first published science fiction story, "My Boy Friend's Name is Jello," appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1954.  In 1961 he met Grania Kaiman, and they were married in early 1962, and had a son in November 1962.  He became editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1962-1965.  In 1963 he and his family moved to Milford, Pennsylvania, but had several disagreements with their landlord which resulted in them being evicted, so they moved to Amecameca, Mexico.  In June 1964, Grania moved back to California, while Avram stayed in Mexico with their son.  In 1965, he relocated to British Honduras (now Belize), then to California in 1970, where he began to study and then converted to Tenrikyo, a panentheist Japanese New Religion.  In 1971 he moved to Sausalito, California, close to San Francisco.  In his later years, he lived in Bremerton, Washington, where he died in 1993, aged 70.

Over the course of his writing career, he wrote 20 novels and collaborated on several more, but he was best known for his short science fiction stories.  He was recognized with a Hugo Award, a World Fantasy Award (including the prestigious Life Achievement Award), and an Edgar Award.  He was survived by his his ex-wife Grania Davis, who continues to edit and release his unpublished works. || Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans.  During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular.  He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen.  He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines.  In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released.  He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958).  Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek.  Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres. || Lester del Rey was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota, the son of poor sharecroppers of partly Spanish ancestry.  His mother died shortly after his birth, and he managed to complete high school and two years at George Washington University before dropping out for economic reasons.  He started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. He was closely associated Astounding Science Fiction, then the leading science fiction magazine. In 1935, his first wife was killed in a car accident.  By 1947 he had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology And Some Were Human.  In the 1950s, he was a leading science fiction writer.  After marrying his second wife in 1945, he became a full-time writer. In 1947 he met the literary agent Scott Meredith at a convention and he began working for Meredith's agency as a reader and office manager.  He later made his way into editing for pulp magazines and then for book publishers. In 1952 and 1953, he edited Space SF, Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction Adventures (as Philip St. John), Rocket Stories (as Wade Kampfaert), and Fantasy Fiction (as Cameron Hall).  He was most successful editing for Ballantine Books with his final wife, Judy-Lynn del Rey, and founded a popular science fiction imprint with her at Ballantine, Del Rey Books, in 1977. || Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, a history book, and several novels of historical fiction. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty) || Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. 

**Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia. || Margaret St. Clair was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard.  - Wikipedia || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer.