In the first-ever biography devoted to the figure who moulded modern geek culture, pulp scholar, Fred Nadis, paints a vivid portrait of Palmer - a brilliant, charming and wildly wilful iconoclast who helped ignite the UFO craze, convinced Americans of hidden worlds and government cover ups and championed the occult and paranormal. Palmer overcame serious physical handicaps to become the most significant editor during the "golden age" of pulp magazines; he rebelled in his own inimitable way against the bland suburban vision of the American Dream; he concocted new literary genres and he moulded our current conspiracy culture decades before The X-Files claimed that the truth was out there. "Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer's practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely." -Jerome Clark, Fortean Times "Fred Nadis's insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing."
-The Washington Post "One of science fiction's greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography." -Publishers Weekly "Lucidly written and unfailingly lively, The Man from Mars is a biography worthy of its subject." -Fate magazine
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