Elliott, George P
Entry updated 14 July 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1918-1980) US academic and author, many of whose short stories were sf or fantasy, the first of genre interest being "The Hill" in Pacific for February 1948. He is best remembered for "Among the Dangs" (June 1958 Esquire), assembled in Among the Dangs: Ten Short Stories (coll 1960), which deals with an imaginary South American tribe and has been widely reprinted within and outside the genre; his essay "Discovering the Dangs", in Conversions: Literature and the Modernist Deviation (coll 1971), discusses, biographically and theoretically, the creation of an sf text. Two other stories from that collection – including the Near-Future anti-racist parable "The NRACP" (Fall 1949 The Hudson Review), the title being an acronym for "National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons", and the NRACP's function being to create extermination camps for Black Americans (see Race in SF) – is sf; as are five of those assembled in An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories (coll 1968), most notably "Into the Cone of Cold" (December 1967 Esquire). Although it has been listed in sf bibliographies, David Knudson (1962) is in fact an associational novel dealing with nuclear guilt and the after-effects of radiation poisoning. [JC/GF]
George Paul Elliott
born Knightstown, Indiana: 16 June 1918
died New York: 3 May 1980
works
- Among the Dangs: Ten Short Stories (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960) [coll: hb/Ben Feder]
- David Knudson (New York: Random House, 1962) [hb/]
- An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories (New York: Harper and Row, 1968) [coll: hb/Riki Levinson]
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