Fiction Collection by Eric Frank Russell (.ePUB)
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Fiction Collection (Jerry eBooks, 2020) by Eric Frank Russell
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Overview: Russell took up writing full-time in the late 1940s. He became an active member of British science fiction fandom and the British representative of the Fortean Society. He won the first annual Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1955 recognizing his humorous “Allamagoosa” as the year’s best science fiction.
Russell had an easy-going, colloquial writing style that was influenced in part by American “hard-boiled” detective fiction of the kind popularized by Black Mask magazine. Although British, Russell wrote predominantly for an American audience, and was often assumed to be American by readers.
Russell is sometimes categorized as a humorous writer, and Brian Aldiss describes him as John W. Campbell’s “licensed jester”. However, Russell’s humour generally has a satirical edge, often aimed at authority and bureaucracy in its various forms. On other occasions, for example in the short stories “Somewhere a Voice” and “The Army Comes to Venus”, his work has a deeper and more serious tone, in which the spiritual aspects of humanity’s endeavours and aspirations shine through.
Russell’s short story “Jay Score” (1941) is unusual amongst the pulp fiction of its time in presenting a black character, the ship’s doctor, without any racial stereotyping. Indeed, this story and its sequels may be considered an early example of the science fiction subgenre in which a spaceship is crewed by a multi-ethnic, mixed human/non-human, complement of the much later Star Trek).
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Humour > Satire
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