John Rankine
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John Rankine, born Douglas Rankine Mason 26 September 1918, is a British science fiction author, who has written books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason.
Born in 1914, the last year of World War I, he would have turned 20 years of age as tensions in Europe rose. There is no evidence that he enlisted, but many in his generation did, and he may have followed them.
We know nothing of what he was doing until 1966, when his first short stories and novels were published while he was in his mid-fourties. The novels had a very sixties and seventies feel to them. One theme he worked with was the short life span one, probably borrowed from William F. Nolan's Logan's Run, but while the background and theme seemed similar, The Resurrection of Roger Diment took the concept in a totally different direction.
Rankune also wrote TV novels in the Space 1999 universe.
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[edit] Body of work
[edit] Novels
From Carthage Then I Came aka Eight Against Utopia (1966) Ring of Violence (1968) The Tower of Rizwan (1968) Landfall is a State of Mind (1968) The Janus Syndrome (1969) Matrix (1969) Horizon Alpha (1971) Dilation Effect (1971) Satellite 54-Zero (1971) The Resurrection of Roger Diment (1972) The End Bringers (1973) The Phaeton Condition (1973) Operation Umanaq (1973) The Omega Worm (1976) Pitman's Progress (1976) Euphor Unfree (1977) Mission to Pactolus R. (1978) The Typhon Intervention (1981) In the Eye of the Storm (2001) The Darkling Plain (2001)
[edit] Series
Dag Fletcher 1 The Blockade of Sinitron (1966) [as by John Rankine] 2 Interstellar Two-Five (1966) [as by John Rankine] 3 One is One (1968) [as by John Rankine] 4 The Plantos Affair (1971) [as by John Rankine] 5 The Ring of Garamas (1972) [as by John Rankine] 6 The Bromius Phenomenon (1973) [as by John Rankine]
Space 1999 2 Moon Odyssey (1975) [as by John Rankine] 6 Astral Quest (1975) [as by John Rankine] 8 Android Planet (1976) [as by John Rankine] 10 Phoenix of Megaron (1976) [as by John Rankine]
Space Corporation 1 Never the Same Door (1968) [as by John Rankine] 2 Moons of Triopus (1968) [as by John Rankine] 3 Binary Z (1969) [as by John Rankine]
Space:1999 5 Lunar Attack (1975) [as by John Rankine]
[edit] Collections
Tuo Yaw (2003) BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ: And Other Short Stories (2003) Tuo Yaw
[edit] Anthologies containing stories by Douglas R Mason
New Writings in SF 7 (1966) New Writings in SF 9 (1966) New Writings in SF 11 (1968) New Writings in SF 16 (1969) New Writings in SF 21 (1972) New Writings in SF 9New Writings in SF 16New Writings in SF 21
[edit] Short stories
Folly to Be Wise (1966) The Man Who Missed the Ferry (1966) There Was This Fella... (1968) All Done by Mirrors (1969) Algora One Six (1972)
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