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Kensch, Otto

An Australian pseudonym, or more likely House Name, used on several unremarkable Scientific Thrillers titles. Of most sf interest are Time Has a Door (1949 chap), in which a twentieth-century scientist Time-Travels to a Ruined Earth where Devolution has created Monsters, and Sleep Is Death (coll 1950 chap), the title story involving a crime writer and his Doppelganger, a figure who literally takes over its sibling's body. The Kensch byline was also used for four stories in the Australian magazine Thrills Incorporated 1950-1951, beginning with "Method for Murder" (April 1950 Thrills Incorporated). [JC/DRL]

"Otto Kensch"

works

series

Scientific Thriller

• Time Has a Door (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1949) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
• Death Is a Habit (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1949) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
• Sleep Is Death (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [coll: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
• Murder Has Wings (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
• Image of Death (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]

links

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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:18 am on 27 July 2024.
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