Mason, David
Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US author Samuel Mason (1924-1974) who began publishing with "Placebo" in Infinity Science Fiction for November 1955; he was married 1956-1962 to Katherine MacLean. Most of his novels – such as his first, Kavin's World (1969), and its sequel in the Kavin sequence, The Return of Kavin (1972) – were routine Sword and Sorcery. However, his final book, The Deep Gods (1973), more impressively implants a twentieth-century mentality into the brain of a prehistoric man (see Identity Transfer; Prehistoric SF), where he must deal with the insanity of a whale (one of the "deep gods" of the title) that threatens to destroy Eden. [JC]
Samuel Mason
born 1924
died 28 June 1974
works
series
Kavin
- Kavin's World (New York: Lancer Books, 1969) [Kavin: pb/Frank Frazetta]
- The Return of Kavin (New York: Lancer Books, 1972) [Kavin: pb/Charles Moll]
individual titles
- Degrees of Pleasure (New York: Olympia Press, 1969) [pb/nonpictorial]
- Jellyroll (New York: Olympia Press, 1969) [pb/nonpictorial]
- Devil's Food (New York: Ophelia Press, 1969) [pb/nonpictorial]
- The Sorcerer's Skull (New York: Lancer Books, 1970) [pb/Steele Savage]
- The Shores of Tomorrow (New York: Lancer Books, 1971) [pb/Jim Steranko]
- The Deep Gods (New York: Lancer Books, 1973) [pb/Charles Moll]
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