As editor for the ground-breaking sci-fi magazine "Amazing Stories" and creator of publications such as "Other Worlds, Imagination, Fate, Mystic, Search, Flying Saucers, Hidden World, "and "Space Age, " Palmer pushed the limits and broke new ground in science fiction publishing in the 1940s and 1950s and was reviled for it by purists who called him the man who killed science fiction.
In the first-ever biography devoted to the figure who molded modern geek culture, pulp scholar Fred Nadis paints a vivid portrait of Palmer a brilliant, charming, and wildly willful iconoclast who helped ignite the UFO craze, convinced Americans of hidden worlds and government cover ups, and championed the occult and paranormal.
Palmer overcame serious physical handicaps to become the most significant editor during the golden age of pulp magazines; he rebelled in his own inimitable way against the bland suburban vision of the American Dream; he concocted new literary genres; and he molded our current conspiracy culture decades before "The X-Files" claimed that the truth was out there."
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