Geier, Chester S
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.

(1921-1990) US author and editor who began publishing work of genre interest with "A Length of Rope" for Unknown in April 1941; he was very active in the Ziff-Davis stable (for Amazing and Fantastic Adventures) in the 1940s, where he published a large amount of routine material under his own name and pseudonyms including Guy Archette and the House Names Alexander Blade, P F Costello, Warren Kastel (initially used for collaborations with his friend William L Hamling) (Geier had been deaf from the age of twelve; Hamling could do sign), S M Tenneshaw, Gerald Vance and Peter Worth. Book-length tales include "Minions of the Tiger" (September 1946 Fantastic Adventures), Forever is Too Long (March 1947 Fantastic Adventures; 2009 ebook) and Hidden City (July 1947 Amazing; 2009 ebook); plus Outlaw in the Sky (February 1953 Amazing; 2014 dos) as by Archette, which is essentially a Western with a few sf transpositions. Geier ran the Shaver Mystery Club (see Richard S Shaver) as a favour to Ray Palmer, editing the Shaver Mystery Magazine on its behalf; he had collaborated with Shaver on Ice City of the Gorgon (June 1948 Amazing; 2011 dos). Although he was one of the more prolific Pulp-magazine writers, his short stories have never been collected in book form, and only two, "Environment" (May 1944 Astounding) and "The Children" (April 1951 Fantastic Adventures), have been anthologized. Some out-of-copyright titles have been reissued posthumously: see Checklist below. [JC/MA/DRL]
see also: Colonization of Other Worlds.
Chester S Geier
born Stevens Point, Wisconsin: 4 April 1921
died Chicago, Illinois: 10 September 1990
works
- Forever is Too Long (place not given: Pageturner, 2009) [ebook: first appeared March 1947 Fantastic Adventures: na/]
- Hidden City (place not given: Pageturner, 2009) [ebook: first appeared July 1947 Amazing Stories: na/]
- Ice City of the Gorgon (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2011) with Richard S Shaver [dos: first appeared June 1948 Amazing: pb/R G Jones]
- Flight of the Starling (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2012) [dos: first appeared January 1948 Amazing: pb/Malcolm Smith]
- Outlaw in the Sky (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2014) [dos: first appeared February 1953 Amazing as by Guy Archette: pb/Richard Powers]
- Minions of the Tiger (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2015) [dos: first appeared September 1946 Fantastic Adventures: pb/Arnold Kohn]
- Sinbad: Through Time and Space (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2017) [dos: first appeared January 1949 Fantastic Adventures as "The Return of Sinbad": pb/R G Jones]
- The Opposite Factor (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2018) [dos: first appeared June 1952 Amazing as "The Opposite is Hell": pb/Ed Valigursky]
collections and stories
- Cold Ghost (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared November 1948 Amazing: na/]
- The Sphere of Sleep (place not given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared December 1942 Amazing: na/]
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