John Rankine

For the British anthropologist John Rankine Goody, see Jack Goody. For the South Australian politician, see John Rankine (politician). For the British colonial administrator, see John Rankine (governor).

John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason 26 September 1918, died 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] and first attended Chester Grammar School and in 1937 went to study English Literature and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester, where he was a friend of Anthony Burgess (mentioned in Little Wilson and Big God, AB's autobiography).

We know little of his life until 1966, when his first short stories and novels were published while he was in his mid-forties. The novels have a very 1960s and 1970s feel to them. One theme he worked with was that of a shorter life span, possibly borrowed from William F. Nolan's Logan's Run, but while the background and theme seemed similar, The Resurrection of Roger Diment took the concept in a totally different direction.

Rankine also wrote television novels in the Space: 1999 universe.

Bibliography

Novels[3]

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

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

Anthologies containing stories by Douglas R Mason

Short stories

Notes

  1. "Author Douglas R. Mason, aka John Rankine, dies". SFScope. 1918-09-26. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  2. John R. Mason (2011). "Douglas R. Mason / John Rankine". Golden Apple. 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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