| Get Out of Our Skies! by Henry Slesar, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy Contributor(s): Slesar, Henry (Author), Jarvis, E. K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606643703 ISBN-13: 9781606643709 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $7.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Many younger SF readers may not recognize Henry Slesar's name -- he was everywhere as an SF writer in the first decade of his career, but by 1980 or so he was better know as a mystery writer. And, well -- a TV writer. More specifically, his work was a part of everyday American life for decades: he was the head writer of the TV soap opera "The Edge of Night" from 1956 until 1984. Henry Slesar published this tale in the December, 1957, issue of "Amazing Stories" using the "nom de plume" E.K. Jarvis. (He also wrote a good deal under the pseudonyms O.H. Leslie and Jay Street.) Lord knows why he used the pennames: this story -- a tale of advertising madness that begins with turning the afternoon sky into an enormous billboard -- is Slesar's, quite distinctly. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 6" W x 9" (0.25 lbs) 68 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Slesar, Henry: - "Henry Slesar (1927 - 2002) was an American author, playwright and copywriter. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. After reading Slesar's "M Is for the Many" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock bought it for adaptation and they began many successful collaborations. Slesar wrote hundreds of scripts for television series and soap operas, leading TV Guide to call him "the writer with the largest audience in America." In 1955, he published his first short story, "The Brat" (Imaginative Tales, September, 1955). While working as a copywriter, he published hundreds of short stories-over forty in 1957 alone-including detective fiction, science fiction, criminal stories, mysteries and thrillers in such publications as Playboy, Imaginative Tales and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; he was writing, on average, a story per week. Alfred Hitchcock hired him to write a number of the scenarios for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He wrote a series of stories about a criminal named Ruby Martinson for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and later worked on Rod Serling's Twilight Zone series. He also penned the screenplay for the 1965 film Two on a Guillotine, which was based on one of his stories. His short story "Examination Day" was used in the 1980s Twilight Zone revival. His first novel-length work was 20 Million Miles to Earth, a 1957 novelization of the film. In 1960, his first novel, The Gray Flannel Shroud (1958), a murder mystery set in an advertising agency, earned the Edgar Allan Poe Award." |