One big name per story is usually considered to be sufficient. So when two of them appear in one by-line, it can certainly be called a scoop; so that’s what we’ll call it. H. L. Gold and science-fiction go together like a blonde and a henna rinse. Robert Krepps is also big time. You may know him also under his other label – Geoff St. Reynard, but a Krepps by any name can write as well.

H.L. Gold is mostly remembered nowadays as the editor who started Galaxy. But there’s a weird perspective thing that happens in publishing, where folks mistake the editor for the work he acquires. Gold was a very very good acquiring editor – but as a writer, well. His career didn’t survive his leaving Galaxy. Krepps, though, had real talent; we’ve reissued two books he had serialized under the St. Reynard name. He should have had a heck of a career.