
Valley of Shadows ( 1968) as Delphine C Lyons is a fantasy. Smith's first novel, The Perfect Planet ( 1962), a Satire, is set on a planet which was once a health farm and is now a Utopia run by women. Selections of her short work have been assembled as Evelyn E Smith Resurrected: Selected Stories of Evelyn E Smith (coll 2010) and The Best of Evelyn E Smith: The Two Suns of Morcali and Other Stories (coll 2012). For her crossword story "BAXBR/DAXBR" (in Time to Come, anth 1954, ed August Derleth the two alien words should properly appear "crossed"), see Games and Sports.



(1922-2000) US crossword-puzzle compiler and author, who wrote at least five gothic romances as by Delphine C Lyons, some of which were supernatural she began publishing sf with "Tea Tray in the Sky" in Galaxy for September 1952, and for about a decade published actively in the magazines after about 1960 she appeared there only infrequently.
