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	Eric Frank Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 - February 28, 1978) was an English science fiction author, producing some of the best humorous science fiction of his time.
		Russell was a man who loathed the pomposity and rigmarole of humanity's various forms of organisation; he generally took aim at authority in all its forms.
		Russell also wrote many short stories and novellas, as well as The Rabble Rousers, a sardonic nonfiction look at human folly, such as the Dreyfus affair and the Florida land boom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Frank_Russell (476 words)

	Yarns Without Threads - Eric Frank Russell - The Great Explosion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eric Frank Russell was one of several British SF writers, who provided much of the content of the "pulp" magazines of the 40s and 50s.
		Russell's delightfully shambolic collection of military and diplomatic dunderheads find it difficult to believe that the Naturists and the Doukhobors will have retained their clothes-loathing over the decades since leaving Earth.
		Russell makes some good points about whether the emigrants are lunatics, now happily occupying asylums of their own, or if it is those who dream of empire who are the real lunatics.
	www.forcers.org.uk /nude_lit/russell.htm (811 words)

	DARKER TIDES - Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From his first published tale in 1937 to the middle of the 1960s, Eric Frank Russell was one of the most highly-acclaimed authors in the genre.
		Over the next two decades, Eric Frank Russell wrote more stories that are more in the realm of the "weird tale" than the more logical world of science fiction.
		Russell's collection from NESFA is now in a third printing, we strongly suggest advance orders to avoid possible disappointment.
	www.darksidepress.com /russelldarker.html (296 words)

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		A previous Russell revival, featuring a smaller greatest-hits collection and reprints of several of his novels, was spearheaded by Alan Dean Foster, and the present collection bears an introduction by Jack L. Chalker and an afterword by Mike Resnick.
		Russell was perhaps the first trans-Atlantic science-fiction writer, an Englishman who successfully passed for a native in the American magazines.
		But Russell's individualists were at least as willing to cooperate as to compete, with a high degree of the usual sf willingness to transcend boundaries of race, sex, species, etc. (see "Jay Score").
	www.maroney.org /hlavaty/documents/Eric_Frank_Russell.html (1229 words)

	SF Hub: Eric Frank Russell archive
		Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) was one of the leading and most popular British science fiction writers of the 20th century.
		The Eric Frank Russell Collection was donated to The University of Liverpool by the author's daughter, Erica Metcalfe, in November 1993.
		Eric Frank Russell's personal library of books, magazines and fanzines and his Hugo Award are also contained in the Archive.
	www.sfhub.ac.uk /EFR.htm (487 words)

	Major Ingredients - Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) always has been one of my very favorite science fiction writers, one who helped set the tone for the best science fiction to a standard to which few writers attain.
		Russell has a strong anti-authoritarian streak, which often puts his heroes at odds with their own government, space navy, and so on, while also dealing with more overt foes.
		But Russell has "the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad" that Kafka does not; Russell's hero retains the wit, humor, and patience to master even this modern morass.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Russell/Major-Ingredients.html (1113 words)

	Amazon.com: Wasp: Books: Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eric Frank Russell became a popular writer of science fiction after spending World War II in the RAF (he was from England, 1905-1978).
		Based on proposals from Russell's time with British Intelligence in the Pacific theatre, it is the story of one man against an Empire - a solitary agent sent into the heart of enemy territory to cause chaos and mayhem out of all proportion to his resources.
		James Mowry is the typical Russell hero, a solitary type not over-fond of authority, but who would, in his own words "rather walk into something than be frogmarched into it" and will, if absolutely cornered, acknowledge that some kinds of authority are a good deal nastier than others.
	www.amazon.com /Wasp-Eric-Frank-Russell/dp/0575070951 (2022 words)

	Eric Frank Russell: Wasp - an infinity plus review
		One has to wonder whether Eric Frank Russell applied first-hand knowledge of espionage or sabotage when writing his 1957 classic, Wasp.
		As Terry Pratchett says on the outside cover of this newly reprinted novel, "I can't imagine a funnier terrorists' handbook." Humour and terrorism are, indeed, interwoven in Wasp, and the novel has survived the passing of time so well that this heady mixture still has a powerful impact today.
		Gollancz are to be congratulated on the reprint (which forms part of their Collectors' Edition series), but I'm disappointed that they devote only a brief paragraph to Russell's biography: after reading it, one is left none the wiser as to this superb British sf author's background or personal knowledge of cloak-and-dagger methodology.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/wasp.htm (540 words)

	Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews PS#10: Eric Frank Russell
		Eric Frank Russell's best work appeared in the forties and fifties, mostly in the form of short stories.
		Russell's stories have aged better than those of many of his contemporaries, because they are less dependent upon gimmicks.
		EFR started out as an earnest Fortean, and the notion of creatures hovering just over the edges of human perception pops up periodically in his writing.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/PS_010.htm (1378 words)

	Wasp by Eric Frank Russell, classic science fiction book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This shortcoming is surprising coming from Russell, whose short stories of space exploration such as "Symbiotica" always featured very imaginative space aliens.
		Perhaps Russell intended the book to have this unsettling edge – a 1957 reader might have been just as disturbed comparing Mowry to the communist infiltrators our society then feared.
		Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) was a UK writer of science fiction stories and books.
	members.aol.com /siure/efrussell.htm (705 words)

	Ace Double Reviews 12
		Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) was an English writer who worked almost exclusively for John W. Campbell.
		As with several other Russell stories that I have read, it is necessary for the hero's foils to be quite remarkably stupid.
		On the whole, this is a fairly characteristic Eric Frank Russell collection, but not really his best work.
	www.sff.net /people/Richard.Horton/aced12.htm (1129 words)

	Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell - an infinity plus review
		Russell's classic novel in this wily-human-vs-dimwitted-alien-bureaucracy theme -- The Great Explosion is rather different, concerning itself with a monolithic human bureaucracy attempting to deal with scattered and idiosyncratic human cultures -- is undoubtedly Wasp, but Next of Kin is always cited in the following breath.
		And here there is a conundrum that Russell never quite succeeds in sorting out, with the result that his narrative is never fully convincing.
		These aliens are of a species which has successfully developed the capability for interstellar flight; although they are merely a minor constituent of the federation that is waging war against the Earth and its allies, they are nevertheless technologically able to wage that war.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/nextofkin.htm (1241 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		hese 30 stories from the legendary (but overlooked) SF Golden Ager Eric Frank Russell (1905-1978) focus on the heyday of his career, having appeared during the years 1941 to 1965.
		Unlike fellow SF satirist Keith Laumer, Russell was concerned primarily with one issue of some importance: who holds power in society, and how the individual could take charge of his own life, enlarging both his responsibilities and privileges.
		Russell adopted a basically libertarian view--on display most clearly in "And Then There Were None"--which should earn him an additional audience today outside the genre among those of similar political bent.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue205/books2.html (738 words)

	SINISTER BARRIER: Eric Frank Russell's Terrifying Vision
		Terrifying because, since Russell wrote that distrubing novel, it has become more feasible that something such as Russell describes could be occurring right now and in fact may have been occuring for eons.
		OF COURSE we could be observed from afar, and--while Russell's Vitons in his story were in the earth's vicinity--those who actually may be observing us could likely be here anytime they felt the desire.
		Russell set to words a terrifying vision touching on deeply disturbing matters that most readers of his day would not be able to accept as anything but the fantastic imaginings of a science fiction writer.
	www.talkaboutpoetry.com /group/alt.prose/messages/20517.html (324 words)

	Eric Frank Russell: breve biografia
		Eric Frank Russell nasce nel 1905 a Sandhurst, nel Surrey inglese.
		L'istruzione di Russell è quindi perlopiù ottenuta nelle scuole militari, ed è decisamente buona; la lista dei corsi frequentati dal futuro autore è impressionante: Chimica, Fisica, Scienza delle Costruzioni, Topografia, Disegno Industriale, Metallurgia e Cristallografia.
		Russell è stato certamente un ottimo narratore, tanto che il critico e biografo Sam Moskowitz affermò che «alcune sue storie sono così belle che vorremmo non finissero mai».
	www.geocities.com /fictionpub/autori/russell.htm (943 words)

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		EFR had two main themes: pompous authority figures being outwitted by clever subordinates, and entire alien races being no match for a single canny human.
		EFR's writing has aged better than many other 1950s authors, possibly because the fight against self-important bureaucrats is ever more relevant, but his style and the humour is a little old-fashioned.
		Indeed, although EFR is careful to paint this as the Good Guys desperately fighting lots of Very Bad Guys by any means possible, this is rather harder to read as a comedy today than when it was written.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/r/russell.htm (630 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Next of Kin
		Eric Frank Russell was a British writer who did the bulk of his work for John W. Campbell at Astounding Science Fiction in the 40s and 50s.
		Russell quickly expanded it into half of an Ace Double, published in 1958 as The Space Willies.
		Russell was almost always readable: a reliable entertainer.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/nk112.htm (820 words)

	Amazon.ca: Entities: The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell: Books: Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sometimes Russell's stuff is rather dated, and sometimes his satire hits hard enough to crack both target and the reader's patience, but the novels' length staves off the longueurs of repetition that plagued the all-short-stories previous volume.
		Selected Novels Of Eric Frank Russell: Entities provides the complete novels of Wasp, Sinister Barrier, Call Him Dead, Next Of Kin and Sentinels Of Space plus three bonus short stories.
		Russell specializes in plots which blend humor with psychological insights.
	www.amazon.ca /Entities-Selected-Novels-Frank-Russell/dp/1886778337 (315 words)

	RUSSELL, Eric Frank - personal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was British to a fault but had a healthy disrespect for everything...which could be a natural result of four years in the RAF.
		I think one reason why EFR stories have been very consistently enjoyable is that they are done in one of the right ways, with conviction and enjoyment of the medium."
		The Eric Frank Russell archive is held by the Sydney Jones Library at the University of Liverpool, England, and contains the Hugo Award for "Allamagoosa."
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/russell.html (300 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Wasp
		Eric Frank Russell was born in 1905 in Sandhurst, Surrey.
		This havoc is the meat of Russell's narrative.
		Mowry infiltrates Jaimec's cities, and soon creates the impression in the authorities' minds that Sirian dissidents, sick of the war and their rulers' jackboot repressiveness, have organized a resistance movement.
	www.sfsite.com /06b/wasp83.htm (575 words)

	Eric Frank Russell
		Spock, Jean-Luc Picard and Data explored the spaceways with crews of assorted human and extraterrestrials aboard the various incarnations of the Enterprise, there soared the crew of Jay Score, McNulty, and a group of chess-playing, many-tentacled, thin-air breathing Martians aboard the Upskadaska City, affectionately known as the Upsydaisy.
		Eric Frank Russell was born in England in 1905 and died in 1976.
		His youth was spent traveling through Egypt and the Sudan, and he went on from there to study such subjects as chemistry and metallurgy.
	www.absolutewrite.com /novels/eric_frank_russell.htm (408 words)

	Sinister Barrier - Eric Frank Russell
		In his Foreword, Russell credits three men with the "cumulative effect" that led to the story jelling for him.
		Russell also finds opportunity to mention mysterious appearances — Kaspar Hauser; and disappearances — Benjamin Bathurst.
		Russell was long involved in Fortean affairs; for a blast of weirdness, check out the Fortean Times or the International Fortean Organization.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Russell/Sinister-Barrier.html (1418 words)

	Eric Frank Russell Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Two ruthless alien races are locked in a conflict that could destroy the hard-won harmony of hundreds of civilized worlds if their battling is not stopped.
		An expansion of the novelette by Eric Frank Russell.
		Now Foster, who credits Eric Frank Russell's novella "Design for Great-Day" with inspiring him to become a science fiction writer--expands that novella--the classic tale of a human who must outwit two alien races bent on catastrophic war--into...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Eric_Frank_Russell (345 words)

	Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russell was born in 1905, and died in 1976, though he wrote almost nothing in sf after the late 1950s.
		I also note that Russell is staying in print in the UK even though he seems to have disappeared from the sfnal mindset here in the US (along with Murray Leinster and any number of other Golden Age authors).
		As you say, Russell went back and revised several of his early works that were cut/abridged for paperback publication (particularly in Ace Doubles).
	pub31.ezboard.com /fsciencefictionfrm2.showMessage?topicID=37.topic (2136 words)

	Eric Frank Russell: Deep Space. A book review by jpoc.
		With settings including Venus and Mars both populated by natives, some of these stories do have a distinctly period feel but, they are just so well written and so interesting despite that that they still merit a read.
		The tales are all pretty simple and straightforward and they would make an interesting introduction to sf for younger readers but they also provide a light alternative for mature readers.
		This book is out of print but you can get other books by Eric Frank Russell from amazon.co.uk.
	www.jpoc.net /books/sf/r/00/russell-eric-frank/deepspace.html (501 words)

	McILWAIN, David - personal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After the war there was much to do in England, but by the early 1950s, McIlwain had returned to SF by writing radio plays, selling his first, Spaceways in 1952 to the BBC, using his 1938 fannish pen name of Charles Eric Maine.
		Charles Eric Maine, like his friend Eric Frank Russell, found an eager American market for all SF works produced.
		Charles Eric Maine (SF), Robert Rayner (Mystery), and Robert Wade (general fiction).
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/maine.html (198 words)

	Amazon.com: Best Eric F Russell: Books: Eric Frank Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Russell's social and political concerns (freedom, equality, social justice) are combined with clever, witty stories that use the SF genre without getting bogged down in science.
		Russell has a wonderful and unique sense of humor.
		This is a priceless picture of one of the special authors of the "Golden Age".
	www.amazon.com /Best-Eric-F-Russell-Frank/dp/0345332237 (579 words)

	Eric Frank Russell - Wikipedia
		Russell war ein Mann, welcher die Überheblichkeit und die übertriebene Selbstdarstellung der verschiedensten menschlichen Organisationsformen verabscheute.
		Eric Frank Russell ist heute zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten.
		Literatur von und über Eric Frank Russell im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Frank_Russell (340 words)

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