Kastle, Herbert D
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1924-1987) US author best known outside the genre, who began publishing occasional sf stories with "The York Problem" in If for February 1955. He edited the final two issues of Startling Stories (Summer and Fall 1955). His one sf novel, The Reassembled Man (1964; exp vt Edward Berner Is Alive Again! 1975; vt The Three Lives of Edward Berner 1976) depicts without excessive originality the transformation by Aliens of a human into a sexually supercharged Superman. [JC]
Herbert David Kastle
born New York: 11 July 1924
died Los Angeles, California: 19 October 1987
works
- The Reassembled Man (New York: Gold Medal, 1964) [pb/Frank Frazetta]
- Edward Berner Is Alive Again! (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1975) [exp vt of the above: hb/Dean Ellis]
- The Three Lives of Edward Berner (London: W H Allen, 1976) [vt of the above: hb/]
- Edward Berner Is Alive Again! (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1975) [exp vt of the above: hb/Dean Ellis]
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