Lan Wright

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Lionel Percy Wright (known as the author as Lan Wright ; born July 8, 1923 in Watford , Hertfordshire ; died October 1, 2010 in Colney Heath near St Albans , Hertfordshire) was a British science fiction writer.

Life

Wright was the son of railroad clerk Percy Robert Wright and Frances Ethel, née Fothergill. After attending the Watford Center School and the Pupil Teacher Center , he worked from 1940 as a buyer for British Railways . From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Royal Navy . In 1949 he married Betty Foster. From 1967 he was head of the purchasing department for the electrical appliance company Haden Electrical Ltd.

Wright's first science fiction short, Operation Exodus , appeared in SF magazine New Worlds in January 1952 . In the following years until 1968 he published three dozen short stories and six novels, including the short story series about Johnny Dawson, in which it comes to intrigues between the earth and the planet Luther. The first four of these stories were summarized in Assignment Luther (1963, German as Die Feindlichen Mächte ) as a fix-up . Except for the last one ( The Pictures of Pavanne , 1968), his novels have also been published in German translation.

Wright died in 2010 at the age of 87.

bibliography

If two years of publication are given for the original editions, the first is that of the first edition and the second that of the first edition (as a book).

Johnny Dawson (short stories)
  • Fair Exchange (1955)
  • The Con Game (1955)
  • All That Glitters (1957)
  • Mate in One (1957)
  • Joker's Trick (1959)
  • The Jarnos Affair (1960)
  • Assignment Luther (1963, novel)
    • German: The hostile powers. Moewig (Terra # 360), 1964.
Novels
  • Who Speaks of Conquest? (1956, 1957)
    • German: Humanity on the move. Translated by Anne Steul. Balowa / Gebrüder Zimmermann (Balowa Bestseller des Kosmos), 1958. Also as: Moewig (Terra # 141/142), 1960 (abbreviated).
  • A Man Called Destiny (1958)
    • German: The most important man in space. Pabel (Utopia large volume # 129), 1960.
  • Dawn's Left Hand (1963, also as Exile From Xanadu , 1964, also as Space Born )
    • German: Born in space. Moewig (Terra # 448), 1966.
  • The Last Hope of Earth (1965, also as The Creeping Shroud )
    • German: The star of the hopeless. Moewig (Terra # 458), 1966.
  • The Pictures of Pavanne (1968, also as A Planet Called Pavanne )
Short stories
  • Operation Exodus (1952)
  • "Heritage" (1952)
  • "The Legacy" (1952, as Jerome Strickland)
  • Project - Peace! (1952)
  • Insurance Policy (1953)
  • The Long Trek (1953)
    • German: The path without end. In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia special volume, # 1. Pabel, 1955.
  • ... Is No Robbery (1953)
  • "We're Human Too" (1953)
  • The Human Element (1953)
  • The Conquerors (1954)
  • The Ethical Question (1954)
  • Cul-De-Sac (1954)
  • Strangers in the Town (1954)
  • The Messengers (1954)
    • German: Courier service galaxy. Pabel (Utopia Science Fiction # 254), 1960.
  • Counterpoint (1955)
  • Wishes Three (1956)
  • Time Will Tell (1956)
  • And Earthly Power ... (1957)
  • Vanishing Trick (1957)
  • Dream World (1957)
  • And So Farewell (1957)
  • Out of Thin Air (1957)
  • Proving Ground (1957)
  • Conquest Deferred (1957)
  • The Easy Way (1959)
  • The First Return (1960)
  • Transmat (1960)
  • Star Light, Star Bright (1961)
  • Should Tyrone Fail (1961)
  • The End of the Line (1961)
  • A Task for Calvi (1963)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Humanity on the move in the SF loan book database, accessed on November 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Lan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Lionel Percy (real name); Strickland, Jerome (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Watford , Hertfordshire
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2010
Place of death Colney Heath at St Albans , Hertfordshire