Laurence Manning

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Laurence Edward Manning (born January 1, 1899 in Saint John , New Brunswick ; died April 10, 1972 in Highlands , New Jersey ) was a Canadian science fiction writer.

Life

Manning trained with the Royal Canadian Air Force after school , but saw no deployment before the end of World War I. In 1919 he acquired at King's College in Halifax the Bachelor in Law and worked as a reporter in Saint John . In 1920 he moved to the United States, where he initially worked as a journalist for the Florists Exchange in Philadelphia . From 1923 he worked for the mail order company Kelsey Nursery Service in New York, whose managing director he became in 1933, from 1952 he was the owner. In 1930 he was a founding member of the American Interplanetary Society , which changed its name to the American Rocket Society (ARS) in 1934 , and temporarily edited its magazine. He is therefore considered an early rocket pioneer who was honored as a Fellow by the ARS in 1960 .

In 1920 Manning published his first science fiction short story, The City of the Living Dead , in Hugo Gernsback's Science Wonder Stories , which he had written with Fletcher Pratt . In the following years a number of other short stories appeared, mostly also in Wonder Stories . His best-known work is The Man Who Awoke , originally a series of five short stories, the first of which, The Forest People , appeared in Wonder Stories in 1933 . In it, Norman Winters, a rich eccentric and amateur researcher, succeeds in using a drug to put himself into sleep for thousands of years. By taking it several times, he experiences another civilization of the future in each episode of the series. In addition to the SF stories, he wrote the series of Stranger Club stories, which are more likely to be attributed to horror literature. In 1951 Manning published a very successful book on horticulture .

In 1928 he married Edith Mary Finette Burrows and with her two daughters and a son. Manning died in 1972 at the age of 73.

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

The asteroid
  • 1 The Voyage of the Asteroid (1932, short story)
  • 2 The Wreck of the Asteroid (1932, 1933)
The Man Who Awoke
  • 1 The Forest People (1933)
  • 2 Master of the Brain (1933)
  • 3 The City of Sleep (1933)
  • 4 The Individualists (1933)
  • 5 The Elixir (1933)
  • The Man Who Awoke (1975, collection)
Stranger Club (short stories)
  • The Call of the Mech-Men (1933)
  • Caverns of Horror (1934)
    • English: The Caves of Terror. In: Kurt Singer (Ed.): Horror: Horror stories from old and new times. Gutenberg Book Guild , 1971, ISBN 3-7632-1522-0 .
  • Voice of Atlantis (1934)
  • The Moth Message (1934)
  • Seeds from Space (1935)
Short stories
  • The City of the Living Dead (1930, with Fletcher Pratt)
  • The Living Galaxy (1934)
  • The Prophetic Voice (1935)
  • World of the Mist (1935)
  • Coal Thief (1936)
  • Expedition to Pluto (1939, with Fletcher Pratt)
  • Good-bye, Ilha! (1952)
  • Men on Mars (1952)
  • Mr. Mottle Goes Pouf (1953)
Non-fiction
  • The How and Why of Better Gardening (1951)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Manning, Laurence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manning, Laurence Edward (full name); Manning, Lawrence (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint John , New Brunswick
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1972
Place of death Highlands , New Jersey