Key, Eugene G
Entry updated 8 July 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1907-1968) US academic, associate professor of engineering at East Los Angeles College, and author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Red Ace" in Air Wonder Stories for 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.
Key saw service in World War Two as a USAF lieutenant colonel and later, in the 1960s, published two textbooks on engineering and electricity [not listed below] for college students. [JC]
Eugene George Key
born Jackson, Mississippi: 5 August 1907
died Long Beach, California: 1 February 1968
works
- Mars Mountain (Everett, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Publications, 1935) [coll: hb/Irving E G Bjorkman]
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