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The Sky Is Falling Lester del Rey
Dave stared around the office. He went to the window and stared upwards at the crazy patchwork of the sky. For all he knew, in such a sky there might be cracks. In fact, as he looked, he could make out a rift, and beyond that a ... hole ... a small patch where there was no color, and yet the sky there was not black. There were no stars there, though points of light were clustered around the edges, apparently retreating. This classic science fiction novel by Lester del Rey was published in 1963. A shorter and earlier version of this story appeared as "No More Stars" under the pseudonym of Charles Satterfield in Beyond Fantasy Fiction, July 1954. Lester del Rey (1915-1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey is especially famous for juvenile novels and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. Del Rey first started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s, at the dawn of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He was closely associated with the leading science fiction magazine of the era, Astounding Science Fiction, and its editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. In the 1950s, del Rey was one of the three leading science fiction writers writing for adolescents along with Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton.
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