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Winsor, G McLeod

(1856-1939) UK author in whose first sf novel, Station X (1919), a psychic Invasion from Mars is repelled by an Earth-Venus alliance, despite the Martians' use of an Antigravity device and advanced Weapons to power a hijacked warship; in 1975 the book was reprinted with an introduction by Richard Gid Powers (1944-    ), which claims it to be an important work, an assertion perhaps justified by the fact that Station X prefigures topoi soon to dominate early American Genre SF. In The Mysterious Disappearances (1926; vt Vanishing Men 1927) a Mad Scientist discovers a new Element which allows him to levitate his victims, committing the sort of "impossible crime" so popular in the detective fiction of the early decades of the twentieth century. [JC/PN]

George McLeod Winsor

born Gateshead. County Durham [now Tyne and Wear]: 1856

died Isleworth, Middlesex: 27 July 1939

works

• Station X (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1919) [hb/uncredited]
• The Mysterious Disappearances (London: Faber and Gwyer, 1926) [hb/J Abbey]
  • Vanishing Men (New York: William Morrow, 1927) [vt of the above: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 01:33 am on 12 April 2026.
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