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Journalist Dane Phillips has spent a decade chasing a shocking truth: aliens live among us, able to regenerate from fatal wounds and impersonate humans perfectly. Repeatedly dismissed and ridiculed, Dane’s obsession grows desperate after discovering another alien masquerading as Milo Blanding, a recent accident victim.
Determined to uncover the truth, Dane plans to exhume Blanding’s grave. However, his investigation is thwarted by a sinister conspiracy involving his own wife and psychiatrist. Trapped and facing mind-erasing "therapy," Dane's final act will reveal a terrifying truth about himself, pushing him to the brink of sanity...
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION, by John Betancourt
AND THE TRUTH… by Lester del Rey
LESTER DEL REY: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Copyright © 2024 by Wildside Press LLC.
Story copyright © 1956 by Lester del Rey.
Also published under the title “Dead Ringer.”
Originally published in Galaxy, Nov. 1956.
Although in the public domain in the United States, this classic workremains in copyright in Mexico, Spain and many other countries.This is the only edition authorized by the author’s estate.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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Lester del Rey was one of the most accomplished writers in the early days of genre science fiction. His novels and short stories appeared in every leading magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s. His work explored robotics, time travel, telepathy, alien invasion, space exploration, first contact, and many more themes, all with vivid writing and realistic, believable characterizations.
He was highly creative, and, in fact, made up most of the “public” details of his life. He often told people his real name was Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey (and sometimes even Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes). He also claimed that his whole family was killed in a car accident in 1935. However, after his death, his sister confirmed that his name was, in fact Leonard Knapp, and the accident in 1935 killed his first wife but not his parents, brother, or sister.
In the 1950s and 1960s, he moved from short fiction to writing novels for adults and young adults, while simultaneously embarking on an editing career. Along with his fourth wife, Judy-Lynn, Lester del Rey met his greatest success at Ballantine Books, where they established the fantasy and science fiction imprint Del Rey Books in 1977. Del Rey Books continues to this day.
Del Rey was a member of the literary banqueting club, the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov’s fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. (He was the model for “Emmanuel Rubin.”)
Following Lester del Rey’s death, I purchased his literary estate from his heirs and have been working to put all of his classic fiction back into print.
Judy Lynn and Lester Del Rey at Minicon 8 (1974).
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
Dane Phillips slouched in the window seat, watching the morning crowds on their way to work