Reinsmith, Richard
Entry updated 28 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Richard Rein Smith (1930- ), who has apparently written many sf novels under various pseudonyms, including the erotic Door of Desire (1964; vt Sex Machine undated as by Dan Elliott) as by Ann Taylor, in which the Receptor, an all-senses recording device, is used to provide pornographic playback of Sex experiences; and the sf adventure Starbright (1983) as by Damon Castle. Other work includes Gothics as by Diana Tower; further pseudonyms remain almost certainly unrevealed. As Reinsmith he wrote The Savage Stars (1981), in which, after their Spaceship crashes on an empty planet, the survivors create a roughshod civilization for themselves (see Colonization of Other Worlds); and a Tarzan Tie, Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds (1985). [JC]
Richard Rein Smith
born 28 November 1930
works
- Door of Desire (El Cajon, California: Nite Time Books, 1964) as by Ann Taylor [pb/]
- Sex Machine (place not known: Rapture, undated) as by Dan Elliott, a House Name [vt of the above: "A Rapture Novel" with no copyright page: one source gives date as 1968: pb/Doug Weaver]
- Dark Diamond (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975) as by Diana Tower [pb/]
- A Gleam of Sapphire (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975) as by Diana Tower [pb/]
- The Savage Stars (New York: Tower Books, 1981) [pb/Romas Kukalis]
- Starbright (New York: Leisure Books, 1983) as by Damon Castle [pb/]
- Tarzan and the Tower of Diamonds (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR Publishers, 1985) [tie to Tarzan: Tarzan: Endless Quest: pb/Jeff Easley]
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