Kainen, Ray
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
Usual pseudonym of US author and civil servant Raymond Arvid Kainulainen (1927-2003), of Finnish ancestry, who also published his erotic sf (see Sex) as by Ray Kalnen. His work – all of it released within a four-year period – was sharply told and occasionally witty, as in the fantasticated Parody of Terry Southern's Candy (1964) in A Sea of Thighs (1968), or per the punning title of his last novel, Satyr Trek (1970), notionally a Space Opera. [JC]
Raymond Arvid Kainulainen
born Escanaba, Michigan: 15 April 1927
died Bloomington, Minnesota: October or November 2003 [Minnesota Star Tribune obituary published 4 November gives no death date]
works
- The Love Box (San Diego, California: Greenleaf Classics, 1967) as by Ray Kalnen [pb/]
- The Day The Universe Came (San Diego, California: Corinth/Nightstand, 1968) as by Ray Kalnen [pb/Robert Bonfils]
- A Sea of Thighs (New York: Olympia Press, 1968) [pb/]
- The Spy Who Came (and Came and Came and Came) (New York: Olympia Press, 1969) [pb/]
- The Cosmic Gash (New York: Olympia Press, 1969) [pb/]
- Earth Station Sex (New York: Olympia Press, 1969) [pb/]
- Satyr Trek (New York: Olympia Press, 1970) [pb/]
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