Laurence Manning

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Laurence Manning (January 1, 1899–April 10, 1972) was a Canadian science fiction author.

Manning was born in St. John, New Brunswick and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1920s he emigrated to the United States and began writing short stories for several pulp science fiction magazines. He wrote The Voyage of the Asteroid, which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and The Man Who Awoke, a series of stories that was later published as a novel.

He was also a founding member of the American Rocket Society, serving as both president and editor. Manning gave up his successful writing career at the end of 1935 and devoted his time to a mail order nursery business that he owned and managed. Apart from a couple short stories in the 1950s, he never wrote anymore science fiction. He was, however, the author of a successful book on gardening, The How and Why of Better Gardening (1951).

[edit] Novels

• The Man Who Awoke (1933)
• Wreck of the Asteroid (193?)

[edit] References

• "Laurence (Edward) Manning" Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 251: Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Douglas Ivison, University of Western Ontario.