Talk:Willy Ley

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I have a book of Willy Ley's called The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn: An Excursion into Romantic Zoology. This sounds similar to the book Exotic Zoology but was first published in 1948, with a second printing in 1951. Are they the same book, perhaps with revisions and a less-silly title?

Why paranormal? I don't see why Willy Ley should fall under this category. Any comments anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.58.46 (talk) 15:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed it. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Engineers' Dreams

As a teenager I read this 1954 book but don't have the information that's called for by the book cite format used by the bibliography here. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:41, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

It's in the article already. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Missing book in publications.

I've got a book by Willy Ley called "Willy Ley's Worlds of the Past". It was published in 1970 by Golden Press, and was illustrated by Rudolph F. Zallinger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.236.224 (talk) 00:21, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Detailed bibliography of works by Willy Ley

I recall reading some books about space when I was as a boy, about 1958-60. The particular books aren't in the article currently. On the web, I found an enormously detailed bibliography here. Pages and pages of works by and about Willy Ley! It includes the books I remembered from that era, and Willy Ley was indeed the author. The bibliography was compiled by Jean M. Perreault. Oaklandguy (talk) 04:47, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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Heuvelman owes Ley (or vice versa)?

"..Ley "copied entire chapters of Heuvelmans's.."[27] . . . . Heuvelmans acknowledged his debt to Ley.[28]" (current version)

The two sentences contradict each other. But my guess is that [27] (Brian Regal's Pseudoscience) which made the first claim misstated the situation, since Ley's book came out in 1949 and Heuvelmans in 1950's, to my knowledge. --Kiyoweap (talk) 22:03, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Space Pilots Reference does not lead to the book by Willy Ley

Down in the links is a link to Space Pilots by Willy Ley, but it leads to a redirect to a German singer, Peter Schilling, who started a musical project called Space Pilots. That article has no reference to Ley. How do we handle a bad link that's not a dead link?

Stargzer (talk) 21:25, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

References

re "untitled"

     I have a copy of Exotic Zoology.  It a compilation based on three previous titles including yours.  Incidentally I feel that dismissing all of Ley's natural history writing as "pseudoscience" is unfair and inaccurate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:1BA0:8D0:8595:9546:1C17:F1C5 (talk) 16:46, 18 November 2019 (UTC) 

Rudolf Nebel not working at Peenemunde

From Ley's book "Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space" (1968); he quotes a letter from von Braun after the war that says that in 1937 when hiring at Peenemunde opened up, "I was definitely NOT (italized) interested in Nebel . . . with little technical and no scientific background". Ley also had a low opinion from the VfR days. von Braun bought Nebel off by paying him for one useless patent. Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 06:15, 27 November 2022 (UTC)