Eric Frank Russell

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Eric Frank Russell (born January 6, 1905 in Sandhurst , Surrey ; died February 28, 1978 in Liverpool ) was a British science fiction writer, best known for his humorous and satirical short stories.

Life

When Russell was born, his father was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . As is common with professional soldiers, the family moved often, and Russell grew up in Chatham , Croydon , Bradford , Aldershot , Longmoor , Portsmouth , Weymouth , Pembroke Dock , Brighton and Southport . He spent part of his youth in Egypt in Alexandria , Cairo and Port Taufiq on the Suez Canal and in Khartoum in Sudan . He learned Arabic, but then forgot about it. He attended schools for the children of British officers at the respective locations and received a wide range of training there, which also included surveying , technical drawing and building construction . From 1922 to 1926 Russell served in the King's Regiment , a traditional Liverpool infantry regiment. In 1930 he married a nurse and a daughter was born on January 6, 1934. It was his birthday, which is why she was named Erica. In the 1930s Russell worked in a variety of professions, including telephone operator, construction cost calculator, draftsman and customer service technician for a steel company in Liverpool.

Russell's contact with British science fiction came through the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), of which he became a member in 1935. By this time he had already published articles in magazines and some poems in Liverpool newspapers. Now he got to know the almost 10 years younger Liverpool sci-fi author Leslie J. Johnson through BIS. An initial collaboration with Johnson was unsuccessful, but Russell went on writing and his next story, The Saga of Pelican West , was accepted by F. Orlin Tremaine for the February 1927 issue of Astounding Stories . It followed immediately in the April number The Great Radio Peril . It was the time in which the number of radio stations multiplied in a short time and a global famine breaks out in the story, as the strength of the radio waves wither the harvests, which is why an international agreement tries to limit the strength and number of stations . In the July issue, the time travel story Seeker of To-morrow followed , a now successful collaboration between Russell and Johnson.

In the same year 1937 the first issue of Tales of Wonder , the first British SF magazine proper, appeared. This contained The Prr-r-eet , another story by Russell in which Prr-r-eet is a Martian who comes to earth and gives people an instrument with which sounds and colors can be transformed into a new kind of music let connect. This idea came from the very young Arthur C. Clarke , whom Russell contributed 10% of the proceeds, which was about $ 3. It was Clarke's earliest income from science fiction. It was unusual for the SF of the time that the alien is not portrayed as a threat, but portrayed empathetically and sympathetically. The sympathetic alien would appear again and again in Russell's works, for example in the 1950s in Dear Devil (1950), The Witness (1951) and Fast Falls the Eventide (1952) with people of a distant future as intergalactic ambassadors of tolerance.

The fact that Russell was one of the first British authors to publish in Astounding and other US pulp magazines, the frequent Americanisms in his texts and the preference for his stories to be settled in the United States led to the fact that Russell was often mistaken for an American. He himself made no secret of his affinity for the USA and went on a six-week trip to the United States with his wife Ellen in May 1939, mainly in New York and the surrounding area, at a meeting of the Queens Science Fiction League the sad state lamented British science fiction and met Edmond Hamilton , who gave him a copy of Charles Forts New Lands . Russell was fascinated and inspired by Fort's collections of inexplicable phenomena and incidents. Another influence on Russell's science fiction was Olaf Stapledon , who published his book The Last and First People in 1930 . When Stapledon made contact with the British Interplanetary Society in 1936 , the contact was made which was obvious, since Stapledon was a philosophy professor at that time in Liverpool, where Russell also lived.

Stapledon's concept of symbiotic life forms was processed by Russell in his first novel Sinister Barrier , which appeared in the first issue of John W. Campbell's new magazine Unknown in 1939 . He also used some of Charles Fort's ideas, including the idea that planet earth could be owned and humans would be alien animals. The Fortsche explanation of Fermi's paradox is namely that the earth is private property, that the planet is fenced in, so to speak, and that therefore extraterrestrials do not keep visiting. In Russell's story, these owners of the earth are the Vitons, a race of shining blue, telepathic energy beings invisible to the human eye, who feed on the conflicts and negative emotions of people, so to speak, milk hatred from people. Bill Graham, an agent in the US government's finance and credit department, uncovered the Vitons while investigating a string of unexplained deaths among scientists. "An imminent death awaits the first cow that begins to oppose a revolt against milking," says a scientist in the first sentence of the story, shortly before the vitons eliminate him. By the way, Russell took advantage of not only the fundus forteanischer anomalistics as an idea mine, it also put itself numerous articles for The Fortean Society Magazine , the forerunner of Doubt . He was also the representative of the Fortean Society in Great Britain for a number of years .

From 1939 onwards, Russell's productivity declined somewhat, which may be related to the fact that the world war began and Russell was trained as a radio operator and radio technician at the Northern Polytechnic in London and at Marconi College in Chelmsford . From 1941 to 1945 Russell served again as a soldier, now in the Royal Air Force as the commander of a radio unit that followed Patton's invading army .

After all, The Mechanical Mice appeared in 1941 , a story about a machine that builds small mechanical mice that steal the material it needs to reproduce, and Jay Score, about a humanoid robot who adventures with a team of tentacle-armed Martian chess masters exists in space. Russell's other stories with Jay Score were Mechanistria (1942), about a planet inhabited by machines and ruled by a computer, and Symbiotica (1943), where he again took up Stapledon's idea of ​​symbiotic forms of life. In 1955, Mesmerica , the last story in the series, was published together with the others in the Men, Martians and Machines collection (German as Menschen, Martians und Maschinen , 1968).

In the years after the war, surprising turns of phrase and closing puns became a trademark of Russell. Typical in this regard is his short story Allamagoosa (German as Der Offund ). An "offund" is missing on board a military spaceship, but unfortunately it has been inventoried. Nobody knows what an “offund” should be, one tricks and deceives and finally builds a flashing thing that is supposed to be used as an “offund”. Until at the end it turns out that it was a typo and it was actually “Off. Dog ”for“ official dog ”. The devil has broken loose, however, because in order to cover up the lack of the offund, it was reported that the offund had malfunctioned due to a gravity anomaly and had been destroyed. The narrative is also exemplary of another feature of Russell's science fiction, namely satire, which is directed primarily against the military, militarism and all forms of bureaucracy. In 1955, Allamagoosa won the Hugo Award for best short story.

In 1978, Russell died in his hometown of Liverpool at the age of 73.

Russell posthumously received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1985 for his satirical novel The Great Explosion from 1962. Here, after the invention of an interstellar drive, mankind has expanded explosively and colonized numerous planets. On some penal colonies (see Australia ) were established, on others dissatisfied sectarians founded colonies on earth (see the Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower ). 400 years later, the earth is making efforts to combine all of these planets into one great star empire and is sending a ship on a diplomatic mission for this purpose. On the first planet, a former penal colony, society has broken up into isolated groups that sit in fortresses and view one another - and even more non-planetary outsiders - with extreme suspicion. Nature- loving nudists have settled on the next planet , for whom the earthly ambassadors are only uptight, dirty carriers of bacilli who are kept at a distance as far as possible. And on the third planet visited, a society of maximum freedom has established itself, in which people live peacefully and carefree without government. This idyllic anarchism is so attractive that the crew of the earth ship gradually deserted until even the leaders of the expedition succumb to the lure and the mission ends in fiasco.

As a further posthumous tribute to his life's work, Russell was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000 .

Trivia

The acronym MYOB for " Mind your own business " ( mind your own business ! ) Probably goes back to Russel. In his story … And Then There Were None , “myob” initially appears as a foreign word with an unknown meaning, until the puzzle is finally resolved. The story was the basis for the novel The Great Explosion, where “myob” also appears.

bibliography

The Great Explosion (1965)
Novels
  • Sinister Barrier (1939)
    • German: The death barrier. Translated by Josef Tichy. Delta, Bischofswiesen 1953. Also as: thought vampires. Translated by Otto Kühn. Ullstein 2000 # 30 (2906), 1972, ISBN 3-548-12906-4 .
  • Dreadful Sanctuary (1948)
  • The Star Watchers (1951, also as Sentinels from Space , 1953)
    • English: Agents of Venus. Translated by F. Klaus. Pabel (Utopia Kriminal # 22), 1957. Also called: Agents of Venus. Translated by Wulf Bergner . Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3182, 1970.
  • Call Him Dead (1955, also as Three to Conquer , 1956)
    • German: As good as dead. Translated by Fritzheinz van Doornick. Pabel (Utopia Kriminal # 13), 1957. Also as: As good as dead. Translated by Walter Spiegl. Signum Taschenbücher # 98, 1962. Also as: As good as dead. Translated by Otto Kühn. Ullstein 2000 # 58 (3007), 1973, ISBN 3-548-03007-6 .
  • Wasp (1957)
    • German: The Wasp . Translated by Walter Ernsting. Moewig (Terra special volume # 55), 1962. Also called: The wasp's sting. Translated by Ute Seeßlen. Ullstein 2000 # 46 (2965), 1973, ISBN 3-548-02965-5 .
  • The Space Willies (1958, also called Next of Kin , 1959)
    • German: Plus X. Goldmann (Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher # 0145), 1972, ISBN 3-442-23145-0 .
  • The Great Explosion (1962)
    • English: The great explosion. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 101) 1965.
  • The Mindwarpers (1965, also as With a Strange Device , 1964)
    • German: The rough reality. Goldmann Taschen Krimi # 2174 1966. Also as: Past times 2. Ullstein 2000 # 70 (3055), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03055-6 .
  • Design for Great-Day (1995, with Alan Dean Foster)
Collections
  • Deep Space (1954, also as Selections from Deep Space , 1955)
  • Men, Martians and Machines (1955)
    • German: people, Martians and machines. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3113, 1968.
  • Six Worlds Yonder (1958)
  • Far Stars (1961)
    • German: Distant Stars . Goldmann (Goldmann's Science Fiction # 28), 1962.
  • Dark Tides (1962)
  • Somewhere a Voice (1965)
    • German: Seelen-Transfer. Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch # 316), 1979.
  • Like Nothing on Earth (1975)
  • The Best of Eric Frank Russell (1978)
    • English: The best stories by Eric Frank Russell. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6703), 1980, ISBN 3-8118-6703-2 .
  • Major Ingredients (2000)
  • Darker Tides (2006)
  • Short Stories Collection (2017)

German compilations:

  • The Fundamental Right of the Universe and Other Stories. Moewig (Terra # 489), 1966.
  • Six worlds from here. Goldmann (Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher # 0158), 1973, ISBN 3-442-23158-2 .
  • Science Fiction Stories 53. Ullstein 2000 # 101 (3178), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03178-1 .
Short stories

If only the title and year are given as sources for short stories, the complete information can be found under collections .

  • The Saga of Pelican West (1937)
  • The Great Radio Peril (1937)
  • The Prr-r-eet (1937)
  • Seeker of Tomorrow (1937, with Leslie J. Johnson)
  • Mana (1937)
    • German: Mana. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Shadow-Man (1938, also as Invisible )
  • The World's Eighth Wonder (1938)
  • Poor Dead Fool (1938)
  • Impulse (1938, also as The Man from the Morgue , 1953, also as A Matter of Instinct , 1962)
    • German: Without thinking. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 5. Pabel, 1956. Also as: reaction. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 53. 1975.
  • Mightier Yet (1939)
  • Vampire from the Void (1939)
  • I, Spy! (1940, also as Spiro , 1947, also as Venturer of the Martian Mimics )
  • Me and My Shadow (1940)
  • The Mechanical Mice (1941, with Maurice G. Hugi, as Maurice G. Hugi)
    • German: Mechanical mice. In: Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 9. Pabel, 1957. Also called: Rat's Nest. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 53. 1975. Also as: Mechanical mice. In: Isaac Asimov (ed.): The best stories from 1941. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6713), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6713-X .
  • Jay Score (1941)
    • German: Jay Score. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 3. Pabel, 1956. Also as: a practical test. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 36. Ullstein 2000 # 67 (3046), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03046-7 . Also called: Jay Score. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Seat of Oblivion (1941)
    • German: Seelen-Transfer. In: Soul Transfer. 1979.
  • "With a Blunt Instrument" (1941)
  • Homo Saps (1941, as Webster Craig)
    • German: Homo Sapiens. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 13. Pabel, 1958. Also as: Marskarawane. In: Six worlds from here. 1973. Also as: Homo Stupidus. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Mechanistria (1942)
    • German: Mechanistria. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 4. Pabel, 1956. Also called: Machine World. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 40. Ullstein 2000 # 75 (3072), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03072-6 .
  • Mr. Wisel's Secret (1942, also as Wisel )
  • Describe a Circle (1942)
  • The Kid from Kalamazoo (1942)
  • Symbiotica (1943)
    • German: Spaceship Marathon. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 99), 1957. Also called: The Green Planet. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 46. Ullstein 2000 # 87 (3118), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03118-8 . Also as: symbiosis. In: Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg (eds.): The best stories from 1943. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6724), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6724-5 .
  • Controller (1944)
  • Resonance (1945)
  • Metamorphosites (1946)
    • German: Metamorphose. In: Martin Greenberg (Ed.): 8 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 8), 1964. Also called: Metamorphosis. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • The Timid Tiger (1947)
  • The Cosmic Relic (1947, also called Relic )
    • German: The faithful servant. In: Sam Moskowitz , Roger Elwood (ed.): The robot spy. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3150, 1969.
  • Hobbyist (1947)
    • German: The hobbyist. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science Fiction Stories 1. Ullstein 2000 # 1 (2760), 1970. Also as: Pastime. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980. Also as: The Lover. In: James Gunn (ed.): From Shelley to Clarke. Heyne (Library of Science Fiction Literature # 100), 2000, ISBN 3-453-17104-7 .
  • Displaced Person (1948)
    • German: You have to give him that. In: Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander (eds.): Fireworks of the SF. Goldmann (Edition '84: The Positive Utopias # 8), 1984, ISBN 3-442-08408-3 . Also as: Not desired. In: Terry Carr , Martin Harry Greenberg (eds.): Dream realm of magic: highlights of modern fantasy. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4254, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31262-7 .
  • Muten (1948, as Duncan H. Munro)
  • The Ponderer (1948)
  • Late Night Final (1948)
    • German: Nightly finale. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • The Big Shot (1949)
  • A Present from Joe (1949)
  • The Glass Eye (1949)
  • The Undecided (1949)
    • German: The team of the species. In: The Fundamental Right of the Universe and Other Stories. 1966. Also as: The Undecided. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • U-Turn (1950, as Duncan H. Munro)
    • German: The last frontier. In: Soul Transfer. 1979.
  • Dear Devil (1950)
    • English: Beloved devil. In: Soul Transfer. 1979. Also as: Dear Devil. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Exposure (1950)
    • German: The error of the formless. In: The Fundamental Right of the Universe and Other Stories. 1966.
  • The Rhythm of the Rats (1950)
    • English: The rhythm of the rats. In: Kurt Singer (ed.): Horror Volume II: Classic and modern stories from the realm of demons. Kruger, 1969.
  • First Person Singular (1950)
  • Follower (1950)
  • MacHinery (1950)
  • Test Piece (1951)
  • Rainbow's End (1951, also called Afternoon of a Fahn )
    • German: Traumplanet. In: Roger Elwood (ed.): The dream planet. Pabel-Moewig (Terra Astra # 240), 1976.
  • … And Then There Were None (1951) Also called: No Earth Power. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 4. Ullstein 2000 # 4 (2791), 1970. Also as: Planet des Disobedience. Reuschle and Teichert, 1970. Also called: Planet of Disobedience. New life (release group IV), 1970. Also as: … then they were all gone. In: Ben Bova , Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Titan 11. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3651, 1979, ISBN 3-453-30564-7 .
  • The Witness (1951)
    • German: the last witness. In: Helmuth W. Mommers , Arnulf D. Kraus (eds.): 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 11), 1965.
  • Ultima Thule (1951)
  • The Illusionaries (1951)
  • Second Genesis (1952)
    • German: Second Genesis. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1952)
  • Fast Falls the Eventide (1952)
    • German: Dusk of Mankind. In: Bert Koeppen (ed.): Utopia magazine 19. Pabel, 1958. Also as: Dusk of mankind. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 7. Ullstein 2000 # 9 (2833), 1971, ISBN 3-548-02833-0 . Also as: Twilight falls quickly. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Take a Seat (1952)
  • Hell's Bells (1952, as Duncan H. Munro)
  • I Am Nothing (1952)
    • German: I am nothing. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 20. Pabel, 1958. Also as: I am nobody. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • The Sin of Hyacinth Peuch (1952)
  • A Little Oil (1952)
    • English: A drop of oil. In: Lothar Heinecke (Ed.): Galaxis Science Fiction, # 3. Moewig, 1958. Also called: A drop of oil. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • Last Blast (1952)
  • The Timeless Ones (1952)
  • This One's On Me (1953, also called Mutants for Sale )
    • German: Mutants for Sale. In: Peter Haining (Ed.): Ungeheuer. Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Taschenbücher # 1417), 1973, ISBN 3-436-01806-6 .
  • Design for Great-Day (1953, also as The Ultimate Invader , 1954)
    • German: The Bringer of Peace. In: Arnulf D. Krauss, Helmuth W. Mommers (Ed.): 7 Science Fiction Stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 17), 1966.
  • Somewhere a Voice (1953)
    • German: The rescue station. In: Soul Transfer. 1979.
  • It's in the Blood (1953)
    • German: It's in the blood. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 14. Pabel, 1958.
  • A Great Deal of Power (1953, also called Boomerang )
    • German: Too powerful. In: Peter Haining (Ed.): Dangerous antics. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5909, 1997, ISBN 3-453-13343-9 .
  • PS (1953, also as Postscript )
  • Bitter End (1953)
    • German: The survivor. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 42. Ullstein 2000 # 79 (3089), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03089-0 .
  • Sustained Pressure (1953)
  • The Courtship of 53 Shotl 9G (1954, as Niall Wilde)
  • Appointment at Noon (1954)
  • The Door (1954)
  • Anything to Declare? (1954, as Naille Wilde)
  • Fly Away Peter (1954)
  • Weak Spot (1954)
    • German: the sore point. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • I Hear You Calling (1954)
  • Mesmerica (1955)
    • German: blind cow. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 43. Ullstein 2000 # 81 (3096), 1974, ISBN 3-548-03096-3 .
  • Nothing New (1955)
    • German: Nothing new. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • Diabologic (1955)
  • Allamagoosa (1955)
    • German: Der Offund. In: Distant stars. 1962. Also called: Technical Bluff. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980. Also called: Allamagoosa. In: Isaac Asimov (ed.): The research team. Heyne (Library of Science Fiction Literature # 13), 1982, ISBN 3-453-30804-2 . Also as: transmission error. In: Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov (eds.): Sternenschiffe (2). Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31145, 1987, ISBN 3-548-31145-8 .
  • Proof (1955)
  • Saraband in C Sharp Major (1955)
  • The Waitabits (1955)
  • Tieline (1955, as Duncan H. Munro)
    • German: umbilical cord. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • Down, Rover, Down (1955, also called The Case for Earth , 1958)
  • Heart's Desire (1955, also as A Divvil With the Women , also as Niall Wilde)
  • Minor Ingredient (1956)
  • Legwork (1956)
    • German: detail work . In: Distant stars. 1962. Also as: detail work. In: Groff Conklin (Ed.): Unearthly Visions. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 171), 1970. Also called: The Scout. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 53. 1975.
  • Sole Solution (1956)
    • German: The solution. In: Axel Melhardt (Ed.): Pioneer 21. Austrotopia (Pioneer # 21), 1965.
  • Plus X (1956)
    • German: The X factor. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 19. Ullstein 2000 # 33 (2924), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02924-8 .
  • Storm Warning (1956)
  • Heav'n, Heav'n (1956)
  • Top Secret (1956)
    • German: Top Secret. In: Six worlds from here. 1973.
  • Quiz Game (1956)
  • Fall Guy (1956)
  • Nuisance Value (1957)
    • German: uprising of the prisoners. Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman # 532), 1967. Also as: disruptive factor. In: Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh (eds.): Fascination of Science Fiction. Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special # 24068), 1985, ISBN 3-404-24068-5 .
  • Love Story (1957)
    • German: Who Describes the Secret? In: Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander (eds.): Fireworks of the SF. Goldmann (Edition '84: The Positive Utopias # 8), 1984, ISBN 3-442-08408-3 .
  • Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1957)
    • English: A whim of fate. In: Six worlds from here. 1973. Also as: Man's best friend. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Early Bird (1957)
  • Brute Farce (1958)
  • Basic Right (1958)
    • German: The fundamental right of the universe. In: The Fundamental Right of the Universe and Other Stories. 1966. Also as: Das Herrenvolk. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 17. Ullstein 2000 # 29 (2905), 1972, ISBN 3-548-02905-1 .
  • There's Always Tomorrow (1958)
  • Study in Still Life (1959, also as Still Life )
    • German: The quiet official life. In: The Best Stories by Eric Frank Russell. 1980.
  • Now Inhale (1959)
  • The Army Comes to Venus (1959)
  • Panic Button (1959)
  • Meeting on Kangshan (1965)
  • Eternal Rediffusion (1973, with Leslie J. Johnson)
Non-fiction
  • Great World Mysteries (1957)
  • The Rabble Rousers (1963)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Moskowitz : Seekers of Tomorrow. 1974, p. 135 ff.
  2. ↑ Eternal Rediffusion , a Russell-revised short story by Johnson, was rejected at the time and only published in 1973 by Sam Moskowitz in Weird Tales .
  3. ↑ Before that, Scoop was only published in 20 issues in 1934 , but it was aimed at young readers.
  4. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. 1974, p. 148 f.
  5. ↑ Sam Moskowitz: Seekers of Tomorrow. 1974, p. 142 ff.
  6. ↑ “I think we are property. We belong to something else: that the earth was once no man's land, that other worlds explored and colonized it and fought for supremacy, but that we now belong to someone: that something is the owner of the earth - no one else has access. ”See: Charles Fort: The Book of the Damned. Zweiausendeins, 1995, ISBN 3-86150-124-4 , p. 207.
  7. ^ "Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking." Eric Frank Russell: Sinister Barrier. Unknown, March 1939, chap. 1.
  8. ↑ 'Thought Vampires' by Eric Frank Russell , Reszension by Michael Drewniok on Phantastik-Couch.de, accessed on July 14, 2018.
  9. ^ David Langford: SF Books of the Damned . In: Fortean Times Weird Year 1996 , 1996.
  10. ↑ Introduction to: Eric Frank Russell: A Great Deal of Power. In: Terry Pratchett et al .: The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy. Souvenir Press, 1996, ISBN 0-285-63308-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Eric Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craig, Webster (pen name); Hugi, Maurice A. (pseudonym); Munro, Duncan H. (pseudonym); Rasel, Erik Frenk (pseudonym); Russel, Eric Frank (alternative spelling); Russell, EF (alternative spelling); Russell, Erik Frank (alternative spelling); Russell, Frank (alternative spelling); Russell, Eric F. (alternative spelling); Russell, Eric (alternative spelling); Wilde, Niall (pseudonym); Wilde, Naille (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandhurst , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1978
Place of death Liverpool