An indomitable will and courage has carried Raymond A. Palmer, or
Rap as he signs his well-liked column in _Fantasy Magazine_, through
trials and tribulations that would have sapped the strength of ordinary
men. It was the organizing genius of Rap that started the Science
Correspondence Club, and it was his guiding hand that brought it to a
success. When he was confirmed at a sanitarium he was forced to give up
his activities, and found the organization run down during his absence,
when he returned. It is he who is again building the International
Scientific Association to a position it once held.
He is the chairman for the Jules Verne Prize Club, and President of the
International Scientific Association and his free hours are filled with
the details of managing these two organizations. His working has been
confined, by the depression, to writing stories.
Now, at the beginning of his writing career, he is already recognized
as an author who will reach the highest pinnacles of the field. His
work has been praised by leading science fiction critics as being among
the outstanding stories appearing today.
Recently, he seems destined to achieve additional success in the field
of radio continuity writing. He is now working on a Western skit on a
year's contract.
He is active as a member of the "Fictioneers," an organized group of
authors in Milwaukee, South Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and other Wisconsin
cities.
Counts among his friends members of every race and every country of the
world. His letters fill many large packing boxes.
Is the author of "The Time Ray of Jandra," "The Symphony of Death,"
"The Man Who Invaded Time," "Dimension Doom," "Escape from Antarctica,"
"The Vortex World," and "The Range Rid-Riders" (radio skit), besides
many unsubmitted stories. He has submitted nothing for a year because
of the condition of the markets.
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