Contributor
Harris-Fain, Darren, editor.
Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2002.
Description1 online resource.
Note:Katharine Burdekin (Murray Constantine)(1896-1963) -- John Christopher (Sam Youd) (1922-) -- John Collier (1901-1980) -- Roald Dahl (1916-1990) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany)(1878-1957) -- E.R. Eddison (1882-1945) -- John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong)(1912-1970) -- William Golding (1911-1993) -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) -- Anna Kavan (Helen Woods Ferguson Edmonds)(1901-1968) -- Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) -- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) -- David Lindsay (1878-1945) -- Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)(1903-1950) -- Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) -- John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) -- Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) -- Sarban (John W. Wall)(1910-1989) -- Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway)(1899-1960) -- Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) -- William F. Temple (1914-1989) -- J.R.R. Tolkein (1892-1973) -- E. Charles Vivian (Charles Henry Cannell, Charles Henry Vivian, Jack Mann, Barry Lynd)(1882-1947) -- Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) -- T.H. White (1906-1964) -- Charles Williams (1886-1945) -- S. Fowler Wright (1874-1965) -- John Wyndham (John Wyndam Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)(1903-1969).
Note:Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction, including dark fantasy and supernatural horror. Includes lesser-known authors who made their own small but significant contributions to this field. Discusses the impact of pulp magazines and other new magazines that focused on subgenres such as romance fiction, adventure fiction, Western fiction, and eventually fantasy and science fiction, and utopian literature, a predecessor and close cousin of science fiction.
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