EFR/2/2/3/58 - Letters from Damon Knight, Editor, Pasadena and Florida, USA - Mar 1967-Jun 1978

Knight has a contract with Doubleday, to write a book about Charles Fort and asks EFR for any relevant material; EFR was apparently offered the book first; Knight also intends to list science fiction works inspired by Fort, including Sinister Barrier, which he thinks Berkley might be in...

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Main Creator: Ackerman, Forrest
Other Creators: Campbell, John, Thayer, Tiffany
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Knight has a contract with Doubleday, to write a book about Charles Fort and asks EFR for any relevant material; EFR was apparently offered the book first; Knight also intends to list science fiction works inspired by Fort, including Sinister Barrier, which he thinks Berkley might be interested in; EFR suggests other titles for the list including Great World Mysteries; Kathleen Thayer refuses Knight access to Tiffany Thayer's work and the notes of Charles Fort; Knight asks to be made a member of the Fortean Society; He has also been in touch with Paul Willis, secretary of INFO, and Vincent Gaddis has supplied a complete run of Doubt; Later Knight asks for permission to reprint EFR's short story Seeker of Tomorrow in an anthology with the provisional title Science Fiction of the Thirties, and asks EFR to get in touch with Les Johnson, the story's co-author; discusses the negotiations entailed by his plans to anthologize the story, involving Forrest J Ackerman and Les Johnson; Knight also mentions plans to write a biography of John Campbell, and asks for EFR's reminiscences; Knight also mentions the rights to Braille adaptations; Knight encloses cheque for Seeker of Tomorrow, discusses possibility of publishing a Campbell biography, and expresses sorrow to Ellen Russell for EFR's death.

Date:Mar 1967-Jun 1978
Reference Number:EFR/2/2/3/58