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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astralcomputing/115849091123704839
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Eric Frank Russell b(01/06/1905) (d. 02/28/1978)
Eric Russell was a British SF writer and Astounding Science Fiction regular. A keen follower of Charles Fort, he wove Fortean paranoia into Dreadful Sanctuary, a conspiracy thriller built on Fort's idea that Earth is an asylum for other worlds' lunatics. "Allamagoosa" won the 1955 Hugo. SF Hall of Fame inductee, 2000.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Frank_Russell
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RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astralcomputing/115849073807613493
Died this day:
Eric Frank Russell b(01/06/1905) (d. 02/28/1978)
Eric Russell was a British SF writer and Astounding Science Fiction regular. A keen follower of Charles Fort, he wove Fortean paranoia into Dreadful Sanctuary, a conspiracy thriller built on Fort's idea that Earth is an asylum for other worlds' lunatics. "Allamagoosa" won the 1955 Hugo. SF Hall of Fame inductee, 2000.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Frank_Russell
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Virgil Finlay pen and ink #illustration for “The Door” by Eric Frank Russell from Universe Science Fiction, March 1954. #FinlayFriday
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Wasp by Eric Frank Russell (1905 - 1978) was published in 1957. The Gollancz yellow jacket Sci-Fi series was one of my staples from the Saturday morning Library visit with friends in Burton on Trent in the 1960s.
Wasp might (in my opinion) just be the best science fiction story ever written. And certainly the funniest terrorist novel of all time (to paraphrase Terry Pratchett).
The photograph is the UK 1958 edition.