Key, Eugene G
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1907-1976) US engineer and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Red Ace" for Air Wonder Stories in February 1930, a tale involving aerial piracy and Antigravity; his sf collection, Mars Mountain (coll 1935), published by William L Crawford's semi-professional company Fantasy Publications, was the first full-length book to appear from any US publishing house specializing in sf (see Small Presses and Limited Editions) – though non-specialist houses had of course been publishing sf for years – and so the precursor of great things to come. Otherwise the three stories assembled are unremarkable. [JC]
Eugene George Key
born Jackson, Mississippi: 5 August 1907
died Long Beach, California: 1 February 1976
works
- Mars Mountain (Everett, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Publications, 1935) [coll: hb/Irving E G Bjorkman]
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