- HEALY, Raymond J(ohn)
- (1907-?1969)US editor who, in collaboration with J. Francis MCCOMAS, compiled the 35-story, 1000pp Adventures in Time and Space (anth 1946; cut vt Selections from Adventures in Time and Space 1954; recut vt More Adventures in Time and Space 1955; text restored, vt FamousScience-Fiction Stories 1957), which remains a definitive anthology of magazine sf up to 1945 and is credited with considerable influence in helping to give GENRE SF literary respectability. RJH later pioneered the original sf ANTHOLOGY with New Tales of Space and Time (anth 1951) and 9 Tales of Space and Time (anth 1954), which included notable stories bysuch writers as Isaac ASIMOV, Anthony BOUCHER and Ray BRADBURY.MJE/JC
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