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Raymond E. Banks
1918–1996
A mid-century American science fiction writer, he published sharp, imaginative stories and novels during the 1950s and 1960s. His work also appeared under several shortened forms of his name and the pen name Fred Freair.
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Ticket to the Stars
by Raymond E. Banks
About the author
Born in Missouri on November 8, 1918, Raymond E. Banks was an American science fiction writer whose most active publishing years were the 1950s and 1960s. He wrote novels and short fiction at a time when magazine and paperback science fiction were reaching a wide popular audience.
His work was published not only as Raymond E. Banks, but also as Ray Banks, Ray E. Banks, and R. E. Banks. Some pieces were issued under the pen name Fred Freair, a reminder of how commonly genre writers of the period moved between bylines.
Banks died on August 3, 1996. He is remembered by science fiction readers for a body of work rooted in the energetic, idea-driven style of postwar American SF.