![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s time to reassess him maybe we can even clear up a few puzzles and misconceptions.” Skinner’s call for a “Shaver Revival” largely consists of putting forward some of the basic facts about Shaver’s life-a surprisingly difficult task that involved cutting through decades of accreted misinformation and fan-based bile in order to get at the details of “The Shaver Mystery.” This publishing event is still so retrospectively reviled that, even though he is writing more than sixty years after the original material began appearing in Amazing Stories, and for a periodical running an ongoing UFO Forum, Skinner approaches the topic haltingly, hesitantly, almost as if dreading the condemnation to follow. ![]() In the June 2005 issue of Fate magazine, Doug Skinner wrote of Richard Shaver that, though he “ought to be forgotten by now,” he has “remained stubbornly alive…. War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction. The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey. REVIEW-ESSAY Andrew Ferguson Unearthing the Shaver Mysteriesįred Nadis. ![]()
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