COOPER, C. EVERETT (PSEUDONYM OF ROBERT REGINALD, PSEUDONYM OF MICHAEL ROY BURGESS) — Up Your Asteroid! a Science Fiction Farce

San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0893702064. Illustrated by Roger Broadfoot. Cover Art; This is a thin, trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "The principal pseudonym of Japanese-born bibliographer, librarian (attaining the rank of Professor at California State University in 1984) , publisher, editor and author Michael Roy Burgess (1948-2013) , in the US from his early years; as Robert (or as R) Reginald he published his most important bibliographical and critical work in the sf field, including his first essay, "Anatomy of a Phenomenon" (Spring 1968 Charter: Journal of Liberal Arts) , which was assembled with later work in Xenograffiti: Essays on Fantastic Literature (coll 1996; rev vt Xenograffiti: Essays on Fantastic Literature and Other Divers Topics, Second Edition 2005) ; almost all his fiction was under this name, though his first tale, The Attempted Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Political Fantasy (1976 chap; rev vt If J. F. K. Had Lived: A Political Scenario 1982 chap with Jeffrey M Elliot) was initially released as by Lucas Webb; it is an Alternate-History tale in which monarchies have been retained worldwide and Kennedy is not killed. Burgess also used his main pseudonym as publisher and editor of the Borgo Press in California between 1975 and the end of 1998, and in its later incarnation as a quasi-autonomous imprint of Wildside Press from 2004; Borgo is a Small Press that has published a large number monographs on and bibliographical studies of sf, fantasy and horror, as well as some fiction." (from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction). Near Fine .