Back to entry: pfeil_donald_j | Show links blue

Pfeil, Donald J

(1937-1989) US author whose Voyage to a Forgotten Sun (1975), Through the Reality Warp (1976) and Look Back to Earth (1977) as Don Pfeil were Young Adult deliberately (and enjoyably) outmoded Space-Opera idiom. Under the House Name William Arrow he wrote Return to the Planet of the Apes 2: Escape from Terror Lagoon (1976), a Tie to the animated Television series. He was also editor of Vertex 1973-1975. [JC]

Donald John Pfeil

born Los Angeles, California: 28 November 1937

died Los Angeles, California: 30 March 1989

works

• Voyage to a Forgotten Sun (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975) [pb/Bob Pepper]
• Through the Reality Warp (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976) [pb/Boris Vallejo]
• Return to the Planet of the Apes 2: Escape from Terror Lagoon (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976) as by William Arrow [tie to the animated Television series: Return to the Planet of the Apes: Planet of the Apes: pb/]
• Look Back to Earth (New York: Manor Books, 1977) as Don Pfeil [pb/Bruce Pennington]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 13:58 pm on 23 April 2024.
<https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pfeil_donald_j>