![]() ![]() ![]() The books, including "Saga of Lost Earth" and "Tramontane," were about the poem's characters on another planet. Petaja's best-known novels were a series based on the Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem similar to Homer's Odyssey. He wrote for the magazines through the 1950s. His first published stories in the 1930s appeared in magazines like Weird Tales, Amazing Stories and Crack Detective Stories. Petaja moved to Los Angeles and immersed himself in a burgeoning science fiction scene, becoming friends with writers who would be read worldwide like Bradbury and Robert Howard, who wrote "Conan." Petaja's agent.Īfter three years at Montana State University, Mr. "He read that and knew that there were other people like him," said Thomas Gladysz, Mr. ![]() He knew immediately that he wanted to devote his life to writing ghost stories and outer-space tales. Petaja told friends and colleagues he was hiking near a lake in western Montana when he found a copy of Weird Tales magazine in the early 1930s. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury, and in 1995 he was named the first author emeritus by the Science Fiction Writers of America.īorn in 1915 in Milltown, Mont., Mr. He lived in San Francisco since the 1950s, wrote 13 novels and countless short stories with titles like "The Corpse Wants Company" and "Dinosaur Goes Hollywood" for pulp fiction magazines. ![]()
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