I’ve been a fan of Goulart’s work for many years, from his original stuff to his his ghost work to his books on the pulp and comic genres. His tie-in work are particular favorites. THE PHANTOM novelizations, his twelve AVENGER novels under the Kenneth Robeson bylines, and his TEKWAR ghost work are particular favorites. I thought it nice that Shatner gave him a thank you for his “assistance” on that last series four, five books in. I’ve read a great many of his books, but not all. A few weeks back James Reasoner covered this one on Forgotten Books and gave me a good reason to jump back into Goulart’s world. Read his review. Much better than my meager efforts.
This one finds a young pulp writer, Pete Tinsley, in Hollywood to help a writer get out a Martian serial in 1940 and he soon falls for a young woman named Tracy Flinn that seems to have a knack that gets them out of trouble now and again.
As the story unfolds, Pete learns there’s more going on than a few gangsters and Nazis mixing it up.
Entertaining piece of science fiction.
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Not The Baseball Pitcher 
Not sure I’ve read any of his fiction under his own name in fact (an yes, I read at least one of the Tek War novels by ‘William Shatner’ …)
I’ve always enjoyed Ron Goulart’s work. I remember reading SKYROCKET STEELE many years ago and laughing a lot.
The only fiction of Goulart’s I recall reading is GROUCHO MARX, MASTER DETECTIVE, which was fun. I’ve read his two very worthwhile non-fiction books about the pulps: THE DIME DETECTIVES and AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF THE PULP MAGAZINES. An anthology he edited, THE HARDBOILED DICKS, introduced me to some wonderful characters from the pulp era: Max Latin, Kennedy and MacBride, Steve Midnight, and several others.
I didn’t know Goulart did so much pseudonym/house name work. Learn something new every day.
Goulart’s AFTER THINGS FELL APART is likely the best novel about the 1960’s ever written.