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John Rankine


(Douglas Rankine Mason)
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aka Douglas R Mason

John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason) is a British science fiction author, who has written books both as John Rankine and as Douglas R. Mason.

Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales 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 (as mentioned in Little Wilson and Big God: The First Part of the Confession, AB's autobiography).
 


Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Dag Fletcher
   1. The Blockade of Sinitron (1966)
   2. Interstellar Two-Five (1966)
   3. One is One (1968)
   4. The Plantos Affair (1971)
   5. The Ring of Garamas (1971)
   6. The Bromius Phenomenon (1973)
   The Fletcher Chronicles (2003)
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Space Corporation
   1. Never the Same Door (1967)
   2. Moons of Triopus (1969)
   3. Binary Z (1969)
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Novels
   From Carthage Then I Came (1966) (as by Douglas R Mason)
     aka Eight Against Utopia
   Landfall is a State of Mind (1968) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Ring of Violence (1968) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Tower of Rizwan (1968) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Janus Syndrome (1969) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Matrix (1969) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Weisman Experiment (1969)
   Satellite 54-Zero (1971) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Horizon Alpha (1971) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Dilation Effect (1971) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Resurrection of Roger Diment (1972) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Fingalnan Conspiracy (1973)
   The End Bringers (1973) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Phaeton Condition (1973) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Operation Umanaq (1974) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Omega Worm (1976) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Pitman's Progress (1976) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Euphor Unfree (1977) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Thorburn Enterprise (1977)
   Mission to Pactolus R. (1978) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   Last Shuttle to Planet Earth (1980)
   Star of Hesiock (1980)
   The Typhon Intervention (1981) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Darkling Plain (2001) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   The Vort Programme (2001)
   Forgotten Rocket (2003)
   In the Eye of the Storm (2003) (as by Douglas R Mason)
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Collections
   Tuo Yaw (2003) (as by Douglas R Mason)
   BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ (2003) (as by Douglas R Mason)
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Series contributed to
Space: 1999
   2. Moon Odyssey (1975)
   5. Lunar Attack (1975)
   6. Astral Quest (1975)
   8. Android Planet (1976)
   10. Phoenix of Megaron (1976)
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Books containing stories by John Rankine
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New Writings in SF 21 (1973)
(New Writings in SF, book 21)
edited by
John Carnell
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New Writings in SF 16 (1969)
(New Writings in SF, book 16)
edited by
John Carnell
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New Writings in SF 12 (1968)
(New Writings in SF, book 12)
edited by
John Carnell

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