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M. P. Shiel (July 21, 1865 – February 17, 1947) was a prolific British writer of genre fantasy fiction, remembered mostly for supernatural and science fiction, published as novels, short stories and as serials. Jump to: navigation, search July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ...
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Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
He was born Matthew Phipps Shiell in Montserrat, West Indies, and was of mixed race; his mother Priscilla Ann Blake was a mulatto, while his father Matthew Dowdy Shiell was from a partly Irish background, and was possibly also of mixed race. Shiell was educated at Harrison College in Barbados. The terms multiracial, biracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestors are not of a single race. ...
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He moved to England some time after 1880, and changed his surname to Shiel. After some miscellaneous employment he gained in the 1890s a reputation for short stories influenced by Poe. He created the decadent detective Prince Zaleski, and was published by John Lane. Jump to: navigation, search This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ...
Decadence was the name given, first by hostile critics, and then triumphantly adopted by some writers themselves, to a number of late nineteenth century fin de siècle writers associated with Symbolism or the Aesthetic movement. ...
John Lane (March 14, 1854 - February 2, 1925) was a British publisher. ...
In a short period he produced his greatest critical success, the science fiction novel The Purple Cloud (1901), and major popular success in The Yellow Danger (serial around 1899), the first of a number of works based on topical anti-Chinese racial feeling. Under financial pressures he quickly descended to writing hack work, creating a bibliographic sprawl of serial publication, rewrites and collaborations.
His collaborators included William Thomas Stead as an ideas man, Edgar Jepson, Oswell Blakeston, and later John Gawsworth and Louis Tracy. The content of his works was muddled, but included some rudimentary versions of Nietzsche's thought, promotion of the ideas of Henry George, and casual racism. Some of his work in the Edwardian period seems to have had a provocative effect on H. G. Wells. William Thomas Stead (July 5, 1849 - April 15, 1912), English journalist, was born at Embleton, Northumberland, the son of a Congregational minister. ...
Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. ...
Jump to: navigation, search John Gawsworth (June 29, 1912 - September 23, 1970), a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. ...
Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Henry George Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, and the most influential proponent of the Single Tax on land. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ...
He had a messy private life, about which there is little reliable information. He died in Chichester. Chichester Cross, in a circa 1831 illustration. ...
References
- The Works of M. P. Shiel (1948) A. Reynolds Morse
- The Quest for Redonda A. Reynolds Morse
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