John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He tried
a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and
advertising, and started writing short stories in 1925. From 1930
to 1939 he wrote stories under different names, almost exclusively
for American publications, while also writing detective novels.
During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In
1946 he went back to writing stories and decided to try a modified
form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. He
died in March 1969.
Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian
Aldiss was born in 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and is the author of
more than seventy-five books. He lives in Oxford and was awarded an
OBE in 2005 for Services to Literature
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