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Mayflower, UK. 140 pages. 1969. Previously published in the UK in paperback in 1956 under the Hank Janson pseudonym. This tale of a superman and time travel was penned by prolific British sf writer, John Russell Fearn, under the del Martia pseudonym. During his 52 years, Fearn - who was born in 1908 and died in 1960 - wrote a staggering quantity of genre fiction using well over 20 pseudonyms, the best known being Volsted Gridban and Vargo Statten, who appeared regularly in early British sf magazines. This is a paperback in fine condition with clean and sharp wrappers, a tight clean spine and clean pages maturing at the edges. On the half title page and the previous page can be found a neat, clean, attractive half inch round stamp of the previous owner's two initials. A fine, clean, tight rock solid copy. ============================================================================ John Russell Fearn (1908 1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. A prolific author, he published his novels also as Vargo Statten and with various pseudonyms such as Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia and others. Fearn was a prolific writer who wrote Westerns and crime fiction as well as science fiction. His writing appeared under numerous pseudonyms. He wrote series such as Adam Quirke, Clayton Drew, Golden Amazon, and Herbert. At times these drew on the pulp traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs. His work received praise for its vividness, but criticism, being deemed unpolished [according to whom?], with Arthur C. Clarke commenting in 1939 that we must admire the magnificent, if undisciplined, fertility of his mind . Child of a cotton salesman and a secretary, he worked initially for his father's firm, followed by work as a solicitor's clerk, fairground assistant, munitions factory, and cinema projectionist. He married writer Camilla Fegan in 1957. As well as writing he was involved in writing/acting in local plays and active in writer's groups. In 1938, he told Amazing Stories that he likes broiling sunlight and heated rooms [and] smokes incessantly while he writes (Wikipedia). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7614
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