TYPED POSTCARD SIGNED by the American Science Fiction and Fantasy author EMIL PETAJA to his friend and colleague REGINALD BRETNOR.

Petaja, Emil (1915-2000). American Science Fiction and Fantasy author.

Published by San Francisco, California, February 5, 1966., 1966

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San Francisco, California, February 5, 1966., 1966. Very good. - Over 90 words typed on a 3-1/4 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide postcard. Emil Pataja thanks Reginald Bretnor "for 'through t and s with FF'. It's a ball and isn't there some way of twisting GB's wrist and getting more, more, more? FASF just isn't the same without him." He goes on to mention having to bodily boot out an "old alcoholic-type friend from L.A." who was crashing in his "practically one room" home. He goes on to say that "I'm getting some work done. Hoping for nice things from my next paperback, with is mostly fantasy." Signed "Emil", with a couple of corrections penned in his hand. Addressed and postmarked on the verso. There are lines, apparently from the postmark, stamped at the top across some of the text of the first paragraph though all of the words are legible. Very good. The American science fiction and fantasy author Emil Theodore Petaja (1915-2000) had a career which spanned seven decades. Petaja published 13 novels, nearly 150 short stories, as well as poems and books and articles on other subjects. An author of science fiction, fantasy, horror stories, detective fiction, and poetry, he considered his work as part of the older tradition of "weird fiction". The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the first ever Author Emeritus in 1995. Born Alfred Reginald Kahn, the Russian-American science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992) wrote numerous short stories, many of which featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist, as well as volumes on military theory and public affairs. His collection of short stories titled "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot", published under the pseudonym of Grendel Briarton, gave birth to the humorous story pun which came to be called a "Feghoot". The stories were originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction for 1956 through 1973 and, in 1973, the magazine ran a contest soliciting "Feghoots" from its readers and writers.

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• Title: TYPED POSTCARD SIGNED by the American Science Fiction and Fantasy author EMIL PETAJA to his friend and colleague REGINALD BRETNOR.
• Publisher: San Francisco, California, February 5, 1966.
• Publication Date: 1966
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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