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John Michael Sharkey (1931-1992) was an American writer who published over eighty plays, many under pen names. Sharkey was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Patrick and Mary Sharkey. In the 1960s, he worked at Playboy and edited the company magazine for Allstate Insurance.
He published science fiction stories starting in 1959 with "The Captain of His Soul," which appeared in Fantastic. He published about fifty stories in science fiction
...An Earthman on Venus, originally titled The Radio Man, is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Sherman Hoar under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley. It was originally published in 1924.
High Adventure and Strange Romance in a World of Mystery. When Myles Cabot accidentally transmitted himself to the planet Venus, he found himself naked and bewildered in a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death.
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...The Manchester Man is a British writer Isabella Banks novel. It was first published in three volumes in 1876 under her married name, Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks. The story follows the life of a Manchester resident, Jabez Clegg, during the nineteenth century and his rise to prosperity in the booming industrial city.--Wikipedia
Raymond Fisher Jones (1915-1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel This Island Earth, which was adapted into the eponymous 1955 film.
Most of Jones' short fiction was published during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, in magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding Stories, and Galaxy. His sixteen novels were published between 1951 and 1978.
His short story "Rat Race", first published
...William Benjamin Basil King (1859-1928) was a Canadian clergyman who became a writer after retiring from the clergy. His novels and non-fiction were spiritually oriented. He was born on February 26, 1859, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He graduated from the University of King's College in Nova Scotia and served as an Anglican rector at St. Luke's Pro-Cathedral in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and later at Christ Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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...Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote several bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonyms Olive Green and Katherine La Farge Norton.
She was the daughter of author Elizabeth Armstrong Reed and the preacher Hiram von Reed. She graduated from the West Division High School, Chicago, where she edited the school's newspaper called The Voice, during which time
...Edward Sims Van Zile (1863-1931) was an American writer. He published fiction, non-fiction, biographies, a commentary on war, and a history of the early days of movies. In 1904, in an essay about him, Book News Biographies said "For the past ten years Mr. Van Zile has been known to the reading public through many short stories, novelettes, and a few novels."
In 1885 Van Zile began working for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World as the editor
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Fred Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote several novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White" including the six "Doom of London" science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include The Four Days' Night (1903), in which London is beset by a massive killer smog; The Dust of Death (1903), in which diphtheria infects the city, spreading from refuse tips and sewers; and The Four White Days (1903), in which a sudden
...20) The Wishing Moon
The Wishing Moon is a novel by Louise Dutton that tells the story of a young girl named Olivia who lives in a small village in England.
A small-town teenage romance of surprising depth, where a boy and girl from opposite sides of the social divide struggle with their awkward, conflicted feelings about each other while a powerful patriarch holds the adult population in his thrall.--GoodReads.
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