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Laurence M. Janifer

Lifespan
1933 – 2002
Nationality
American
Active
1959 – 1963
Works held
16

Laurence M. Janifer (1933–2002), born Larry Harris, later adopting his Polish grandfather’s surname, wrote for over fifty years. He co-created the Hugo-nominated ‘Psi-Power’ novels with Randall Garrett (as ‘Mark Phillips’) and is best known for the ‘Survivor’ series about troubleshooter Gerald Knave. Also an editor, critic and accomplished pianist, he was a fixture of the magazine field from the late 1950s on.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of Slave Planet Slave Planet Cover of Supermind Supermind Cover of The Impossibles The Impossibles
  2. 1962
    Cover of Brain Twister Brain Twister Cover of Charley de Milo Charley de Milo Cover of Mex Mex Cover of Sight Gag Sight Gag
  3. 1961
    Cover of Lost in Translation Lost in Translation Cover of The Man Who Played to Lose The Man Who Played to Lose
  4. 1960
    Cover of Occasion ... for Disaster Occasion ... for Disaster Cover of Out Like a Light Out Like a Light Cover of Wizard Wizard
  5. 1959
    Cover of Extracts from the Galactick Almanack: Music Around the Universe Extracts from the Galactick Almanack: Music Around the Universe Cover of Hex Hex Cover of Pagan Passions Pagan Passions Cover of That Sweet Little Old Lady That Sweet Little Old Lady

Wrote across

1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFPsychic PowersFirst ContactSpace OperaDystopiaColonizationHard SFAlternate History

Kindred authors shared themes

Randall GarrettGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperJim HarmonMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondPoul AndersonAlan Edward Nourse

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperRobert SilverbergFritz LeiberBryce WaltonCharles L. Fontenay

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