Aaron A. Wyn (May 22, 1898 - November 3, 1967) (born Aaron Weinstein) was an American publisher. He began editing pulp magazines in 1926, forming A.A. Wyn Magazine Publishers in the 1930s and branching out into book publishing in 1945. He founded Ace Books, which specialized in genre paperback books, in 1952. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ace Books is the oldest continuing publisher of science fiction & fantasy novels, founded in 1953 by magazine publisher A. A. Wyn. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ...

Wyn was famous for paying his authors as little as he could get away with, which prompted David McDaniel to encode a comment on Wyn into one of his The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novelization, The Monster Wheel Affair. The first letters of each chapter's title in the book's table of contents, when lined up, spell out "A.A. Wyn is a tightwad". The joke went unnoticed by Wyn^[1]. David Edward McDaniel (1944(?)-November 1, 1977) was a US science fiction author. ... The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was an American television series that ran on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968, for 104 episodes. ...

Notes

1. ^ See Chapter Six of Richard Lynch's outline of the history of the science fiction fandom in the 1960s

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is the community of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy literature, and in contact with one another based upon that interest. ...

References

• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 2, 471, Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc.. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.