Wallace West

For the superheroes, see Wally West and Wallace West (character).

West's novelette "Outlaw Queen of Venus" was the cover story for the February 1944 issue of Fantastic Adventures

West's novelette "The Time-Lockers" was the cover story for the August 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly

Wallace West ((1900-05-22)May 22, 1900 – (1980-03-08)March 8, 1980) was an American science fiction writer.

Biography

He was born in 1900.

He began publishing during 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which was published prior to the 1960s, was short fiction. His few novels, mostly published after World War II, were mostly re-workings of his pre-war short fiction.

He is credited with suggesting the plot to the Arch Oboler radio play Profits Unlimited (in Fourteen Radio Plays. Random House 1940).

Bibliography

Film history

• Alice in Wonderland (1934)
• Betty Boop in Snow-White (1934)
• Paramount Newsreel Men with Admiral Byrd in Little America (1934)

Novels

• The Bird of Time (1959)
• Lords of Atlantis (1960)
• The Memory Bank (1962)
• River of Time (1963)
• The Time-Lockers (1964)
• The Everlasting Exiles (1967)

Short stories

• "The Last Filibuster" (1967)

References

• Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 1317. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 452–453. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.

External links

• Works by Wallace West at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Wallace West at the Internet Archive
• Works by Wallace West at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Wallace West at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Wallace West at IMDb