Eric Frank Russell
pen names: Duncan H. Munro, Craig Webster and Niall(e) Wilde.
born Berkshire, England: 6 January 1905
died Lancashire, England: 28 February 1978
Eric Frank Russell was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Although he was British, much of his work was first published in the United States. His science fiction was published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. He also had horror fiction published in Weird Tales and supernatural non-fiction articles in Great World Mysteries (1957).
Russell's first novel was Sinister Barrier, cover story for the inaugural issue of Unknown (1939).
He wrote with an American, easy-going, colloquial style that was influenced in part by "hard-boiled" detective fiction. Often his stories involved red-taped alien bureaucracies that were fought by a single resourceful human and were quirky, comical or witty, but others were much more serious, more earnest and deeper.
He is probably best remembered for his novel Wasp (1957) concerning the exploits of a far-future saboteur, or for his short stories, many of which have been the answers to queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Eric Frank Russell
Wikipedia page: Eric Frank Russell - Wikipedia
pen names: Duncan H. Munro, Craig Webster and Niall(e) Wilde.
born Berkshire, England: 6 January 1905
died Lancashire, England: 28 February 1978
Eric Frank Russell was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Although he was British, much of his work was first published in the United States. His science fiction was published in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. He also had horror fiction published in Weird Tales and supernatural non-fiction articles in Great World Mysteries (1957).
Russell's first novel was Sinister Barrier, cover story for the inaugural issue of Unknown (1939).
He wrote with an American, easy-going, colloquial style that was influenced in part by "hard-boiled" detective fiction. Often his stories involved red-taped alien bureaucracies that were fought by a single resourceful human and were quirky, comical or witty, but others were much more serious, more earnest and deeper.
He is probably best remembered for his novel Wasp (1957) concerning the exploits of a far-future saboteur, or for his short stories, many of which have been the answers to queries in our SFF Chronicles Book Search forum.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Eric Frank Russell
Wikipedia page: Eric Frank Russell - Wikipedia
