GEIER, Chester S.

(1921-1991)

   US writer and editor, very active in the ZIFF-DAVIS stable (for AMZ and Fantastic Adventures) in the 1940s, where he published a large amount of routine material under his own name and pseudonyms including Guy Archette and the house names Alexander BLADE, P.F. COSTELLO, Warren KASTEL, S.M. TENNESHAW, Gerald VANCE and Peter WORTH. "Forever istoo Long" (1947 Fantastic Adventures) is book-length, as is "Outlaw in the Sky" (1953 AMZ) as by Archette, which is essentially a Western with a fewsf transpositions. CSG was an advocate of the Richard SHAVER "mystery" and founded a club in his honour, editing the Shaver Mystery Magazine on its behalf. Although he was one of the most prolific of PULP-MAGAZINE writers, his stories have never been collected in book form, and only one, "Environment" (1944), has been anthologized.

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   See also: COLONIZATION OF OTHER WORLDS.