Day, Langston
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1894-1977) UK author whose Magic Casements (coll 1951) assembles mythological fantasies, and whose The Deep Blue Ice (1960) features the experiences of a Victorian mountaineer who is frozen in ice for half a century, and on revival (see Sleeper Awakes) must face the present day. He also became involved with George de la Warr's "radionics" researches and co-authored New Worlds Beyond the Atom (1956) and Matter in the Making (1966) with de la Warr. [JC/DRL]
Gerald William Langston Day
born Baldock, Hertfordshire: 23 December 1894
died Dover, Kent: 1977
works
- Magic Casements (London: Rider and Company, 1951) [coll: hb/Angela Ogden]
- New Worlds Beyond the Atom (London: Vincent Stuart, 1956) with George de la Warr [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Deep Blue Ice (London: The Cresset Press, 1960) [hb/Hugh Walker]
- Matter in the Making (London: Vincent Stuart, 1966) with George de la Warr [nonfiction: hb/]
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