SCHACHNER, Nat(haniel)

(1895-1955)

   US chemist, lawyer and writer, known mainly for biographies of US historical figures. He began publishing sf with "The Tower of Evil" with Arthur Leo ZAGAT for Wonder Stories Quarterly in 1930. The collaboration with Zagat lasted over a year, all NS's first 11 stories being done with him, including a novel, "Exiles of the Moon" for Wonder Stories in 1931. After they ceased collaborating, NS continued to writevery prolifically for the PULP MAGAZINES, under his own name and as Chan Corbett and Walter Glamis. A novel, "Emissaries of Space" (1932), appearedin Wonder Stories Quarterly; the Revolt of the Scientists sequence appeared in Wonder Stories in 1933; and the Past Present and Future series appeared in ASF 1937-9. He published only 1 sf novel in book form, Space Lawyer (1941 ASF; fixup 1953), a humorous set of legal adventures inspace. His style was rough, but he was a sharp and knowledgeable writer; his inattention to the field after about 1940 is regretted.

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   About the author: "The Science-Fiction of Nat Schachner" by Sam MOSKOWITZ in Fantasy Commentator \#43 (1992).

   See also: ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION; POLITICS; TIME PARADOXES; WAR.