_Ray Gallun's stories have appeared in virtually every science-fiction
magazine known to English-speaking man_--Galaxy, Astounding Science
Fiction, Amazing Stories, Marvel Tales, Startling Stories, _etc._,
_etc._, _plus_ Collier's, Family Circle, Utopia (_Germany_), _and
various anthologies_.
_He was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1910, attended the University
of Wisconsin, and has since spent most of his time, when not writing,
traveling through the U. S., Mexico, Hawaii, Europe, and the Middle
East. He is currently a resident of New York City._
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"AMONG THE BETTER SCIENCE-FICTION NOVELS." --_Wilmington News_
"Scientific experiments on the moon and an accidental lunar explosion
that seared the earth triggers another tale from the imaginative pen of
Raymond Z. Gallun, a familiar name to science-fiction readers.
"The secret of life and the restoring to the living of victims of
the holocaust initiate a conflict for Ed Dukas, Gallun's scientific
pioneer of the future. Restoring persons through scientific methods,
personality records and the memories of near kin, leaves one fatal
flaw. They lack one indefinable quality--a divine spark, perhaps a soul.
"Gallun depicts a struggle between the restored people and the natural
living. Life on the asteroids, thought machines, a journey to Mars and
a star ship expedition to Sirius are woven into the plot.
"PEOPLE MINUS X is packed with action, science-fiction style."--_Detroit
Times_
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