Glasser, Allen
Entry updated 11 August 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1908-1971) US author and sf fan, briefly active in the 1930s; he was president of an early Fandom club, the Scienceers, and edited The Time Traveller ("Science Fiction's Only Fan Magazine") in the early 1930s. Due to more than one plagiarism dispute, fandom effectively cancelled him around the end of 1932. As far as this period goes, he is now remembered primarily on two counts: as the "author" of "Across the Ages" (August-September 1933 Amazing), which was plagiarized from "The Heat Wave" (April 1929 Munsey's Magazine) by Robert Ord and Marion Ryan; and as the author of The Cavemen of Venus (1932 chap), a story in pamphlet form which seems to have been the first independent fiction published by the soon-to-be-active American fan press. The publisher was Conrad H Ruppert (see Small Presses and Limited Editions).
Glasser reappeared in the sf world with a poem, "Flying Saucers", in Wonder Stories Annual (anth 1957); he was involved in founding the New York Science Fiction Society, better known as the Lunarians, and in that group's creation of the long-running (1957-2017) fan-oriented convention, Lunacon (see Conventions). [JC]
Allen Glasser
born New York: 4 September 1908
died October 1971
works
- The Cavemen of Venus (Jamaica, New York: Solar Publications, 1932) [chap: pb/]
- Buying Time: A Jaunt in Time and Space (Santa Clarita, California: Mondo Fax Publishing, 2001) as by Mondo Fax [pb/]
about the author
- Daniel Ritter and David Ritter, authors and editors. The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume One: The 1930s (place not given: First Fandom Experience, 2020) [nonfiction: anth: Visual History of Fandom: hb/Mark Wheatley]
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