author
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
1910–2003
A lively figure from science fiction’s early days, he helped shape the genre not just as a writer but as a publisher and fan. His career stretched from pulp-magazine stories to the founding of Fantasy Press, which brought landmark speculative fiction to book form.
1 Audiobook
Isle of the Undead
by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1910, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach discovered science fiction as a teenager and became part of the genre’s first generation of dedicated fans. He began publishing stories in the pulps in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building a reputation as both a storyteller and an energetic participant in the growing science-fiction community.
Eshbach is especially remembered for founding Fantasy Press in 1946. Through that small but influential publishing house, he helped preserve and promote science fiction in hardcover at a time when much of it was still associated mainly with magazines, publishing work by major writers including Robert A. Heinlein and E. E. Smith.
His life was unusually wide-ranging: alongside his work in science fiction, he was also a religious publisher and minister. In later years he returned to fiction with novels and remained a respected link to the field’s earliest era until his death in 2003.