I grew up reading scores of science fiction short stories from the Golden Age and “New Wave” of science fiction… and then went on to various fantasy and science fiction novels of the day, many of which were published by Del Rey Books, still active today as an imprint of the mammoth publisher, Penguin Random House.
What I didn’t know was the role one Judy-Lynn del Rey played in the creation of Del Rey Books and, indeed, many of the sci-fi stories I grew up with (as well as one inconceivable tale). Dennis Wilson Wise has a nice article for The Conversation about this singular force for speculative fiction. Give it a read and, perhaps, crack open one of those old Del Rey paperbacks of yore lurking on your bookshelf.