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galacticjourney) wrote2017-10-07 09:56 am
galacticjourney) wrote2017-10-07 09:56 am
[October 7, 1962] ...like a Man. (the surprising true identity of sf author Lee Chaytor)
[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!]
by Victoria Lucas
OK, that’s neat. Mostly when I look at the covers of science-fiction magazines, I see silly bug-eyed monsters and rocket ships that look like they’re out of early movies, and I don’t know who those men or boys are who wrote those stories or why, but I suspect the stories are for other men or boys.
But now I see "Lee Chaytor’s" name on an sf magazine cover and I feel like giggling -- for Lee is no he! A friend going to San Diego State College sent me word that she’s a lecturer in English, name of Elizabeth Chater, and she is writing science fiction (and advocating that it be taught as literature, of all things!) while she works on her Master’s degree there.
Chater/Chaytor has a story in the May 1958 Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine that I happened to see when I was in that dusty bookstore I mentioned last time. On this visit the cat got down from the desk near the door and accompanied me as I fumbled around, trying to remember where I’d seen it. Ah, there, with bug-eyed monsters, a flying saucer, and a rocket ship, with an eagle harassing an alien. And “featuring their BAIT FOR THE TIGER A New Novel by Lee Chaytor.” So I gathered my pennies and, after considering leaving them with the cat since the owner was elsewhere, I found him, showed him the magazine, gave him my handful of change, and walked out reading it.
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)
by Victoria Lucas
OK, that’s neat. Mostly when I look at the covers of science-fiction magazines, I see silly bug-eyed monsters and rocket ships that look like they’re out of early movies, and I don’t know who those men or boys are who wrote those stories or why, but I suspect the stories are for other men or boys.
But now I see "Lee Chaytor’s" name on an sf magazine cover and I feel like giggling -- for Lee is no he! A friend going to San Diego State College sent me word that she’s a lecturer in English, name of Elizabeth Chater, and she is writing science fiction (and advocating that it be taught as literature, of all things!) while she works on her Master’s degree there.
Chater/Chaytor has a story in the May 1958 Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine that I happened to see when I was in that dusty bookstore I mentioned last time. On this visit the cat got down from the desk near the door and accompanied me as I fumbled around, trying to remember where I’d seen it. Ah, there, with bug-eyed monsters, a flying saucer, and a rocket ship, with an eagle harassing an alien. And “featuring their BAIT FOR THE TIGER A New Novel by Lee Chaytor.” So I gathered my pennies and, after considering leaving them with the cat since the owner was elsewhere, I found him, showed him the magazine, gave him my handful of change, and walked out reading it.
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)