5/13/2023 0 Comments My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. SmithAfter 200 years of isolation, the planet is rediscovered by equalist Terran explorers shocked by the inegalitarian society they find. Her best known work, The Perfect Planet, centers on a planetary health spa run by women who allow their men to think they call the shots. Gold, the editor of Galaxy Magazine throughout the fifties, her work nonetheless stands on its own merits and continues to please readers to this day. Perhaps helped along the way by her husband, H.L. Lyons, and wasn’t above scoring a little extra money on the side by adding a splash of lighter fare to the heavy hearted hard science-fiction periodicals. A crossword puzzle compiler by trade, Evelyn published several gothic romances under the pen name Delphine C. Smith made frequent contributions to Galaxy Magazine. In addition to Doc EE Smith, one of the original Big Three of science fiction, a woman by the name of Evelyn E. Smith working in the field of speculative science-fiction back in the day.
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