The Avenger

By Damon Knight and John Betancourt

Karson was creating a superman to fight the weird super-monsters who had invaded Earth. But he was forgetting one tiny thing—like calls to like.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jul 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781479451784

Damon Knight

Damon Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre. He was a member of the Futurians, an early organization of the most prominent SF writers of the day. He founded the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA), the primary writers' organization for genre writers, as well as the Milford Writers workshop and co-founded the Clarion Writers Workshop. He edited the notable Orbit anthology series, and received the Hugo and SFWA Grand Master award. The award was later renamed in his honor. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm.More books from Damon Knight are available at: http://reanimus.com/authors/damonknight

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INTRODUCTION: DAMON KNIGHT

THE AVENGER

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Copyright © 2020 by Wildside Press LLC.

Introduction: Damon Knight © 2020 by Wildside Press LLC.

The Avenger was originally published in Planet Stories Spring, 1944 issue, under the pseudonym Stuart Fleming.

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INTRODUCTION: DAMON KNIGHT

Damon Francis Knight 1922–2002) was an American science fiction author, editor and critic. He is the author of To Serve Man, a 1950 short story adapted for the original TV series The Twilight Zone. (To Serve Man even won a Retro Hugo.) He was born in Baker, Oregon in 1922, and grew up in Hood River, Oregon. He entered science-fiction fandom at the age of eleven and published two issues of a fanzine entitled Snide.

Knight’s first professional sale was a cartoon to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story sale, The Itching Hour, appeared in the Summer 1940 number of Futuria Fantasia (edited and published by fellow fan Ray Bradbury, who also went on to great things.) Resilience followed in the February 1941 number of Stirring Science Stories, edited by Donald Wollheim. Unfortunately, an editorial error made the story’s ending incomprehensible. Ultimately the correct text was reprinted in a 1978 magazine—it ran just four pages, with a two-page introduction by Knight.

At the time of his first story sale, Knight was living in New York city and was a member of the Futurians. One of his short stories describes paranormal disruption of a science fiction fan group, and contains cameo appearances of various science fiction figures under thinly-disguised names