J. Schlossel

Joseph Schlossel was a science fiction writer and pioneer of the space opera genre. E. F. Bleiler, in his bibliographic work Science-Fiction: The Early Years, described Schlossel's work as "crude and amateurish", but notes that it anticipated further developments. Despite his poor storytelling skills, he was credited by showing "tremendous inventiveness in his adventures, with intergalactic wars and invasions on an immense scale". Mike Ashley states that "Schlossel's writing was basic but his imagination and vision made him one of the more significant contributors to the early SF Magazines".