Rosel George Brown

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The Cover of Waters of Centaurus 1970 edition.
The Cover of Waters of Centaurus 1970 edition.
2008 edition of a collection of Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown stories. This volume includes Earthblood, co-authored by Laumer and Brown, Sybil Sue Blue by Brown, and several short stories by Laumer.
2008 edition of a collection of Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown stories. This volume includes Earthblood, co-authored by Laumer and Brown, Sybil Sue Blue by Brown, and several short stories by Laumer.

Rosel George Brown (March 15, [[1926] – [November]] 1967) was an American science fiction author.

Born New Orleans, Louisiana, she lived in the city of her birth with her husband after concluding her formal education at Sophie Newcomb College, where she majored in Greek, and at the University of Minnesota where she received her M.A. in Greek. Several of her books were dedicated to her husband W. Burlie Brown, who was a history professor at Tulane University. The couple had two children. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher and a welfare visitor in Louisiana.

In 1959, she was nominated for the Hugo Award for best new author, but her career was cut short when she died of Lymphoma at the age of 41 in 1967. The fourth Nebula Award Anthology contains an obituary written by Daniel F. Galouye.

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[edit] Works

Brown's works were mainly written in the late fifties to the mid sixties and generally were favorably received by critics and readers. Her main novels are Sybil Sue Blue a.k.a Galactic Sybil Sue Blue, and its sequel Waters of Centaurus which chronicle the life of Sybil Sue Blue, a female detective. Waters of Centaurus was published after her death, and was copyrighted by her husband in 1970. She also collaborated on the novel 'Earthblood (1966) with Keith Laumer.

Her short stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Fantastic Universe and elsewhere. A collection of Brown's short stories entitled A Handful of Time, was published by Ballantine Books in 1963.

[edit] Short stories

A full list of Brown's short stories follows:

[edit] Stray Facts

Anne McCaffery dedicated Alchemy & Academe to Rosel George Brown, along with several other people. The authors met at a Milford Writer's Workshop.

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