The Lester Allison series by Don Wilcox consisted of three novellas published in
Amazing Stories under the editorship of Raymond A. Palmer.
These space adventure stories are:
Slave Raiders from Mercury, June 1940
Battering Rams from Space, February 1941
Earth Stealers, June 1943
Born in 1908, Don Wilcox did post-graduate work in drama, journalism and sociology at the University of Kansas. In 1946 he became an instructor at Northwestern University teaching creative writing. Wilcox’s first story, “The Pit of Death” appeared in the July 1939 issue of
Amazing Stories and he continued writing for the Ziff-Davis magazines throughout the 1940’s. Wilcox passed away in March, 2000.
