(1914-1986) US novelist and short-story writer who began publishing work of genre interest with "Satan's Bondage" for Weird Tales in September 1942. At least one full-length tale, "Magnanthropus" (September-October 1961 Fantastic), was never published in book form. Egoboo: A Fantasy Satire (1950 chap) is a short Time-Travel spoof which satirizes sf Fandom (> Recursive SF). Conquest of Earth (January-May 1956 Amazing as "The Scarlet Saint"; heavily cut vt 1957; text restored as The Scarlet Saint 2008 ebook) is a Space Opera in which a resurgent mankind learns how to conquer the occupying Alien Trisz. [JC/DRL]
Manly Miles Banister
born McCormick, Washington: 9 March 1914
died Portland, Oregon: 8 June 1986
works
- Egoboo: A Fantasy Satire
(Kansas City, Missouri: The Nekromantikon, 1950) [chap: a title which has also been given as Eegoboo: pb/] - Conquest of Earth (New York: Avalon Books, 1957) [first appeared January-May 1956 Amazing as "The Scarlet Saint": hb/Ric {BINKLEY}]
- The Scarlet Saint (place not given: Renaissance E Books, 2008) [ebook: vt of the above, restoring text of January-May 1956 Amazing magazine version: na/]
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