Eric Frank Russell - Writings

Writings

Russell's full-length fiction includes the following:

• Sinister Barrier (1939)
• Dreadful Sanctuary (1948)
• Sentinels from Space (1953), based on the earlier magazine story The Star Watchers (1951)
• Three to Conquer (1956), based on the earlier magazine serial Call Him Dead (1955)
• Men, Martians and Machines (1955), containing four related novellas
• Wasp (1958)
• Next of Kin (1959), published earlier as The Space Willies (1958)
• The Great Explosion (1962)
• With a Strange Device (1964), also published as The Mindwarpers.

Russell also wrote a large number of shorter works, many of which have been reprinted in collections such as Deep Space (1954), Six Worlds Yonder (1958), Far Stars (1961), Dark Tides (1962) and Somewhere a Voice (1965). His short story "Allamagoosa" (1955), which was essentially a science-fictional retelling of a traditional tall story called "The Shovewood", won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

Russell wrote numerous non-fiction essays on Fortean themes, some of which were collected in a compendium of Forteana entitled Great World Mysteries (1957). His second non-fiction book was The Rabble Rousers (1963), a sardonic look at human folly including the Dreyfus affair and the Florida land boom. He also wrote Lern Yerself Scouse: The ABZ of Scouse (1966) under the pseudonym "Linacre Lane".

Two omnibus collections of Russell's science fiction are available from NESFA Press: Major Ingredients (2000), containing 30 of his short stories, and Entities (2001) containing five novels. John Pelan's Midnight House published Darker Tides, a collection of Russell's horror and weird fiction, in 2006.

The 1995 novel Design for Great-Day, published as by Alan Dean Foster and Eric Frank Russell, is an expansion by Foster of a 1953 short story of the same name by Russell.