GEIS, Richard E(rwin)

(1927-)

   US writer, editor and sf fan, best known since 1953 for producing and contributing significantly to a fanzine, PSYCHOTIC, and later a semiprozine, The ALIEN CRITIC , both of which were, confusingly, at different times known as Science Fiction Review. He has published other FANZINES. His vigorously anti-highbrow judgements were for a long timeinfluential in the sf field; between 1969 and 1983 he 6 times won a HUGO for Best Fanzine and a further 7 times for Best Fan Writer.His first published story was "Flight Game" for Adam in 1959. He concentrated thereafter on pornographic fiction, with well over 100 titles, both soft and hardcore. Not many had sf or fantastic themes. Exceptions are the Roi Kunzer books - The Sex Machine (1967) and The Endless Orgy (1968) - andthe singletons Raw Meat (1969), The Arena Women (1972) and, as by Peggy Swenson, A Girl Possessed (1973). Three further erotic sf novels by REGwere self-published, mimeographed limited editions: Canned Meat (1978), Star Whores (1980) and The Corporation Strikes Back (1981). More recently,writing with Elton P. Elliott as Richard Elliott, he wrote the John Norris thrillers set on a NEAR FUTURE Earth suffering from sun-flares caused by a star-wars snafu - Sword of Allah (1984) and The Burnt Lands (1985) - as well as the singletons The Master File (1986) and The Einstein Legacy (1987).

   JC/PN

   See also: SEX.