Fred Nadis is the author of The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Journey, a biography of the science fiction editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 to 1949, Ray Palmer. Nadis has a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin and has a webpage here: www.frednadis.com.
ARTICLES FEATURING FRED

The Shaver Mystery: The Most Sensational True Story Ever Told
DEEP IN AN underground cavern, a diabolical being, monstrous and swollen, gazes lecherously upon a scantily clad maiden. Robots assist human ...

The Uses and Abuses of Illusion
For all his idiosyncrasies, Palmer was emblematic of this cultural turn to Fictionalism, the adoption of an “as if” orientation to secure enchantment in a rational, secular age....
