Fairman, Paul W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1909-1977) US editor and author in several genres, including crime stories and erotica; active from around 1947. His first published sf story was "No Teeth for the Tiger" for Amazing in February 1950, and for some years thereafter he was a regular contributor to the Ziff-Davis magazines under his own name, the pseudonyms Robert Lee and Mallory Storm, and various house pseudonyms (see House Names), including E K Jarvis, Clee Garson, Ivar Jorgensen (which began as a personal pseudonym) and Paul Lohrman; he also published books as by F W Paul (see below). He was the first editor of If, March-November 1952, but departed after four issues to join the Ziff-Davis staff. He left Ziff-Davis in 1954 but returned in December 1955 and became editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic from May 1956, a position he held until September 1958, when he became managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (see Ellery Queen), holding this position until August 1963. He launched the short-lived Dream World in 1957.
Several of Fairman's books under his own name were novelizations of television scripts, including The World Grabbers: A Dramatic Novel Inspired by the Popular TV Program, One Step Beyond (1964), and City under the Sea (1965), based on the film City under the Sea (1965; vt War Gods of the Deep 1965) (see Under the Sea). Other books issued under his own name included the sf novel I, the Machine (1968), the horror-story collection The Doomsday Exhibit (coll 1971), and one juvenile, The Forgetful Robot (1968), featuring a Robot subjected a Memory Edit by a Mad Scientist in order to trigger it into saving the natives of Mars by eliminating human colonists. Two of his magazine stories were filmed: "Deadly City" (March 1953 If) as by Ivar Jorgensen, as Target Earth! (1954), and "The Cosmic Frame" (May 1955 Amazing) as Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957; vt Invasion of the Hell Creatures). Fairman was the principal user of the Ivar Jorgensen pseudonym, publishing under that name Ten from Infinity (1963; vt The Deadly Sky 1970; vt Ten Deadly Men 1975) and others [see Checklist]. He wrote one pseudonymous novel in collaboration with Milton Lesser, The Golden Ape (January-March 1957 Amazing as "Quest of the Golden Ape" as by Adam Chase and Ivar Jorgensen; 1959) as by Adam Chase. Several juvenile novels by Fairman were based on outlines by Lester del Rey and published as by del Rey, beginning with The Runaway Robot (1965). He also wrote several volumes of the Man from S.T.U.D. sequence, beginning with The Orgy at Madame Dracula's (1968). [BS]
Paul Warren Fairman
born Missouri: 22 August 1909 [1916 has also been incorrectly given]
died Newark, New Jersey: October 1977
works
under his own name
See also the Ivar Jorgensen listing below for Jorgensen titles reissued as by Fairman.
- The World Grabbers: A Dramatic Novel Inspired by the Popular TV Program, One Step Beyond (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1964) [tie to the television series: pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- City under the Sea (New York: Pyramid Books, 1965) [tie to the television series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: pb/John Schoenherr]
- I, the Machine (New York: Lancer Books, 1968) [pb/Hoot von Zitzewitz]
- The Forgetful Robot (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968) [hb/Lawrence Hoffman]
- That Girl (New York: Popular Library, 1971) [tie to the television series: That Girl: pb/]
- The Frankenstein Wheel (New York: Popular Library, 1972) [Frankenstein: pb/]
- The Girl With Something Extra (New York: Lancer Books, 1973) [tie to the television series: pb/]
- The Girl Who Loved Death (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) [dos: first appeared September 1952 Amazing Stories: pb/Walter Popp]
- Invasion from the Deep (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) [dos: first appeared May 1951 Fantastic Adventures: pb/R G Jones]
- The Man Who Stopped at Nothing (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) [dos: first appeared November 1951 Fantastic Adventures: pb/Ed Valigursky]
- Secret of the Martians (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) [dos: first appeared February 1956 Imagination: pb/Lloyd Rognan]
- The Woman in Skin 13 (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2013) with cover credit to Gerald Vance, interior credit not confirmed [dos: first appeared June 1952 Fantastic Adventures with cover credit to Gerald Vance, interior credits to Fairman: pb/Walter Popp]
- The Jack of Planets (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2017) [dos: first appeared April 1952 Fantastic Adventures: pb/Leo Summers]
- The Terrible Puppets (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2017) [dos: first appeared September 1951 Fantastic Adventures: pb/R G Jones]
collections and stories
- Never Trust a Martian! (Sydney, New South Wales: American Science Fiction, 1954) [story: chap: first appeared January 1951 Amazing as by E K Jarvis: pb/Stanley Pitt]
- Nine Worlds West (Sydney, New South Wales: American Science Fiction, 1955) [story: chap: first appeared April 1951 Fantastic Adventures as by Clee Garson: pb/Stanley Pitt]
- The Doomsday Exhibit (New York: Lancer Books, 1971) [coll: pb/Ron Walotsky]
- The Beasts in the Void (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2007) [story: ebook: first appeared April 1956 Imagination: na/]
- Deadly City (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared March 1953 If: na/]
as by Adam Chase
- The Golden Ape (New York: Avalon Books, 1959) with Milton Lesser, writing together as Adam Chase [first appeared January-March 1957 Amazing as "Quest of the Golden Ape" as by Adam Chase and Ivar Jorgensen: hb/Ed Emshwiller]
- Quest of the Golden Ape (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) with Milton Lesser as by Adam Chase and Ivar Jorgensen [dos: original magazine version of the above: pb/Ed Valigursky]
as by Ivar Jorgensen
- Ten from Infinity (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1963) as by Ivar Jorgensen [pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- The Deadly Sky (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1970) as by Ivar Jorgensen [vt of the above: pb/]
- Ten Deadly Men (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975) as by Ivar Jorgensen [vt of the above: pb/Ed Soyka]
- Ten from Infinity (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) as Paul W Fairman [dos: first appeared November 1951 Fantastic Adventures: pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- Rest in Agony (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1963) as by Ivar Jorgensen [first appeared January 1952 in Fantastic Adventures: pb/Ralph Brillhart]
- Rest in Agony (New York: Lancer Books, 1967) as Paul W Fairman [rev of the above: pb/]
- The Diabolist (New York: Lancer Books, 1973) as Paul W Fairman [vt of the above: pb/]
- Rest in Agony (New York: Lancer Books, 1967) as Paul W Fairman [rev of the above: pb/]
- Whom the Gods Would Slay (New York: Belmont Books, 1968) as by Ivar Jorgensen [first appeared June 1951 in Fantastic Adventures: pb/Jeff Jones]
as by Lester Del Rey
- The Runaway Robot (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1965) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
- Rocket from Infinity (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
- The Infinite Worlds of Maybe (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
- The Scheme of Things (New York: Belmont Books, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
- Tunnel through Time (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
- Siege Perilous (New York: Lancer Books, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [hb/Kelly Freas]
- The Man Without a Planet (New York: Lancer Books, 1966) as by Lester del Rey [vt of the above: hb/Howard Winters]
- Prisoners of Space (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1968) as by Lester del Rey [hb/]
as by Ellery Queen
- A Study in Terror (New York: Lancer Books, 1966) with and as by Ellery Queen [tie: Jack the Ripper: Ellery Queen: pb/]
- Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (London: Victor Gollancz, 1967) with and as by Ellery Queen [tie: vt of the above: Jack the Ripper: Ellery Queen: hb/nonpictorial]
as F W Paul
- The Man from S.T.U.D. #2: The Orgy at Madame Dracula's (New York: Lancer Books, 1968) [The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/]
- The Man from S.T.U.D. #3: Sock it to Me, Zombie! (New York: Lancer Books, 1968) [The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/]
- The Man from S.T.U.D. #6: Rape is a No-No (New York: Lancer Books, 1969) [The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/]
- The Man from S.T.U.D. #7: The Planned Planethood Caper (New York: Lancer Books, 1969) [The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/Frank Frazetta]
- The Man from S.T.U.D. #8: The Lay of the Land (New York: Lancer Books, 1969) [The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/Frank Frazetta]
- The Man from S.T.U.D. vs the Mafia (New York: Lancer Books, 1972) [omni of the above title plus The Orgy at Madame Dracula's and Sock it to Me, Zombie!: The Man from S.T.U.D.: pb/]
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