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(1897-1970) US journalist, advertising writer, radio operator, editor and author who served in World War One and began to publish work of genre interest with "The Warning" as S P Wright in Hugo Gernsback's Radio News for February 1924. "The Experiment of Erich Weigert" (May 1926 Weird Tales) is a Horror story involving a Mad Scientist and radio-mediated artificial Telepathy. "The Forgotten Planet" (July 1930 Astounding) is an early tale of inimical aliens Aliens, opening the John Hanson sequence of variously extravagant sf adventures in Astounding, whose tenth and final story appeared in 1933. Wright then fell silent as an sf author, though his stories were reissued in various venues including Häpna!, Project Gutenberg [see Checklist below] and the eventual collection Anthology of Sci-Fi V13: The Pulp Writers: Sewell Peaslee Wright (coll 2013), which assembles all the John Hanson tales plus two others. [DRL]
born Butler, Pennsylvania: 7 August 1897
died March 1970
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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