I started work on War Over Lemuria in 2006, though I actually began to research and accumulate material as far back as 1972, when I corresponded with Richard Shaver. This is why it is no surprise that it took so long for a serious treatment of these two SF icons to appear, though I had hoped to publish one years ago. The First Fandom Hall of Fame has shamelessly barred Ray Palmer from its hallowed halls as it continues to enforce its post-World War II blacklist of both men. Fandom chased Shaver out of Illinois and hounded Palmer until he finally resigned from Ziff-Davis Publishing to edit his own magazines. Palmer and Shaver have always been been the “bad boys” of science fiction ever since Amazing Stories published “I Remember Lemuria!” in March 1945. Shaver were released. On April 25 McFarland & Company published my book War Over Lemuria, and on June 13 Penguin Books published Fred Nadis’ The Man From Mars. It may come as a surprise to the Old Guard of science fiction fandom that in April and June of 2013, two - count em, TWO books about Raymond A.
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