Starting in the mid-1960s Kelley published a handful of sci-fi novels, and if Mythmaster is any indication, they all might be worth checking out sometime. Kelley, who passed away in 2002, churned out a variety of genre novels, particularly Westerns Mike Madonna informs me that he also created the Cimarron series.
And just as surprisingly, the awesome Robert Foster cover (sort of) illustrates an actual scene in the novel! Usually it’s just the covers, but sometimes the novels themselves live up to this lysergic promise, and Mythmaster is a case in point. They are listed below.I love pulp sci-fi paperback originals, preferably ones from the ‘60s and ‘70s, and especially those that tap into the then-current psychedelic scene, casting their cosmic futures in a hallucenogenic glow. He also wrote two series of sf adventures for younger readers, the Space Police tales and the Galaxy 5 tales, along with a few singletons. Kelley rarely wrote a novel lacking interest but never wrote one that entirely met readers' expectations.
Odyssey to Earthdeath ( 1968) is a Dystopia The Accidental Earth ( 1968) features an inimical Counter-Earth in a plot whose highly coloured complexities approach Time Opera The Coins of Murph ( 1971) is a Satire set in a Ruined Earth Time: 110100 ( 1972 vt The Man from Maybe 1974) carries its protagonists into a Pocket Universe which is governed, it may be, as a Godgame The Earth Tripper ( 1973) subjects an Alien to the cruel exigencies of life on Earth in terms reminiscent of Walter Tevis's The Man Who Fell to Earth ( 1963). Kelley's first novel, The Counterfeits: A Startling Science Fiction Novel ( 1967) as Leo F Kelley, typically jumbles several promising lines of thought as Shapeshifting Aliens, having destroyed their own planet, set about destroying Earth, perhaps inadvertently. In general in his novels, he demonstrated a verve for sharp clear ideas, and some of his novels are genuine Satires with considerable bite but he habitually descended into routine Genre SF plotting, so that his oddly affectless baroque style sometimes jars against the stories he tells, claiming an urgency it fails to convey. He began publishing sf with "Dreamtown, U.S.A." for If in February 1955, and published occasionally in the magazines for some years. (1928-2002) US author, for some time also an advertising copywriter, whose early works were mostly sf, but who concentrated on Westerns from about 1980.
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