Paine, Lauran
Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1916-2001) US stunt rider, rancher and author, extraordinarily prolific in several fields, active from the mid 1940s, with more than 900 novels under his own name and 69 identified pseudonyms from 1950 until the mid-1990s, almost always for Robert Hale Limited. Over 600 of these were Westerns, many of them achieving a level of genuine competence; a relative handful of them were sf, which he wrote without particular inspiration. This Time Tomorrow (1963), a grim Future War tale, was published under his own name; further routine Space Operas are: Focolor (1973) as by Roy Ainsworthy; A Crack in Time (1971), The Undine (1972), Another View (1972), Bannister's Z-Matter (1973) and The Underground Men (1975) as by Mark Carrel; and The Harbinger (1972), The Misplaced Psyche (1973) and Kernel of Death (1973) as by Troy Howard. [JC]
Lauran Bosworth Paine
born Duluth, Minnesota: 25 February 1916
died Yreka, California: 1 December 2001
works
- This Time Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1963) [hb/]
- A Crack in Time (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1971) as by Mark Carrel [hb/]
- The Undine (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1972) as by Mark Carrel [hb/]
- Another View (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1972) as by Mark Carrel [hb/]
- The Harbinger (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1972) as by Troy Howard [hb/]
- The Misplaced Psyche (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1973) as by Troy Howard [hb/]
- Kernel of Death (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1973) as by Troy Howard [hb/]
- Bannister's Z-Matter (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1973) as by Mark Carrel [hb/]
- Focolor (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1973) as by Roy Ainsworthy [hb/]
- The Underground Men (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1975) as by Mark Carrel [hb/]
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