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Chester S. Geier
1921–1990
A busy, dependable voice from the pulp-era boom, he helped fill the pages of mid-century science fiction magazines with fast-moving adventures, strange worlds, and eerie ideas. His stories first reached readers in the early 1940s and still turn up in reprints and public-domain collections today.
7 Audiobooks
Cold Ghost
by Chester S. Geier
Run, Little Monster!
by Chester S. Geier
Meet Me in Tomorrow
by Chester S. Geier
The Soul Stealers
by Chester S. Geier
The Venus Evil
by Chester S. Geier
The Sphere of Sleep
by Chester S. Geier
Planet of Creation
by Chester S. Geier
About the author
Chester S. Geier was an American science fiction writer and editor born on April 4, 1921, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and he died on September 10, 1990, in Chicago, Illinois. He began publishing genre fiction with "A Length of Rope" in Unknown in 1941, then became a regular contributor to the busy pulp-magazine world.
He is especially associated with the Ziff-Davis magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures, where he published frequently during the 1940s. Reference sources also note that he wrote under several other names, including Guy Archette and Warren Kastel, which was common in the pulp era.
Geier's fiction ranges from short stories to longer adventure-driven tales, and a number of his works have remained available through later reprints and ebook editions. He is remembered less as a single blockbuster name than as one of the steady working writers who helped shape the feel of classic American magazine science fiction.