John Rankine (writer)

John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason; 26 September 1918 – 8 August 2013) was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason.[1] Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales,[2] attended Chester Grammar School, and in 1937 began study of English Literature and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester, where he was a friend of Anthony Burgess (mentioned in Burgess's autobiography, Little Wilson And Big God).

Little is known of his life until 1966, when his first short stories and novels were published while he was in his late forties of age. One of his stories, The Resurrection of Roger Diment, features the idea of an abbreviated life span for people, a theme which may have been adapted from William F. Nolan's novel Logan's Run, but Mason's story was developed differently.

Rankine also wrote television novels set in the same universe as the television series Space: 1999.

Bibliography

Novels[3]
  • From Carthage Then I Came a.k.a. Eight Against Utopia (1966)
  • Ring Of Violence (1968)
  • The Tower Of Rizwan (1968)
  • Landfall Is A State Of Mind (1968)
  • The Weisman Experiment (1969)
  • The Janus Syndrome (1969)
  • Matrix (1969)
  • Horizon Alpha (1971)
  • Dilation Effect (1971)
  • Satellite 54-Zero (1971)
  • The Resurrection of Roger Diment (1972)
  • The End Bringers (1973)
  • The Phaeton Condition (1973)
  • Operation Umanaq (1973)
  • The Omega Worm (1976)
  • Pitman's Progress (1976)
  • Euphor Unfree (1977)
  • Mission To Pactolus R. (1978)
  • The Star of Hesiock (1980)
  • The Typhon Intervention (1981)
  • In the Eye of the Storm (2001)
  • The Darkling Plain (2001)

Series

Dag Fletcher

  1. The Blockade of Sinitron (1966) [as by John Rankine]
  2. Interstellar Two-Five (1966) [as by John Rankine]
  3. One Is One (1968) [as by John Rankine]
  4. The Plantos Affair (1971) [as by John Rankine]
  5. The Ring of Garamas (1972) [as by John Rankine]
  6. The Bromius Phenomenon (1973) [as by John Rankine]

Space 1999

  • 2 Moon Odyssey (1975) [as by John Rankine]
  • 5 Lunar Attack (1975) [as by John Rankine]
  • 6 Astral Quest (1975) [as by John Rankine]
  • 8 Android Planet (1976) [as by John Rankine]
  • 10 Phoenix of Megaron (1976) [as by John Rankine]

Space Corporation

  1. Never the Same Door (1968) [as by John Rankine]
  2. Moons of Triopus (1968) [as by John Rankine]

Also Binary Z (1969) [as by John Rankine]

Collections
  • Tuo Yaw (2003)
  • BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ: And Other Short Stories (2003)

Anthologies containing stories by Douglas R Mason

Short stories
  • "Folly to Be Wise" (1966)
  • "The Man Who Missed the Ferry" (1966)
  • "There Was This Fella..." (1968)
  • "Locust Years" (1968)
  • "All Done by Mirrors" (1969)
  • "Algora One Six" (1972)
  • "Second Run at the Data" (1971)[4]

Notes
  1. "Author Douglas R. Mason, aka John Rankine, dies". SFScope. 26 September 1918. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. John R. Mason (2011). "Douglas R. Mason / John Rankine". Golden Apple. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  3. "Binary Z" (1969)
  4. • Galaxy Magazine, February 1971, (Feb 1971, ed. Ejler Jakobsson, publ. UPD Publishing Corporation, $0.75, 196pp, digest, magazine) • Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?51943
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