MacGregor, Reginald James
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? -? ) UK playwright and author of The Monkey-God's Secret (1924), whose sf content is undetermined; in later years, MacGregor, writing as R J McGregor (note spelling of surname), later published Knights of the Skies (1947), a Children's SF tale whose protagonists are rescued by an advanced Technology: a plane that is also being used to destroy warmongers worldwide. Under the same name, he released several nonfantastic 1940s and 1950s detective adventures for children, and may be the R J McGregor credited with nine sf stories published in US magazines, beginning with "The Men in the Moon" (June 1952 Startling Stories) – a short spate of production that ended in 1954. [JC]
Reginald James MacGregor
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works
- The Monkey-God's Secret (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1924) [hb/]
- Knights of the Skies (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1947) as R J McGregor [hb/]
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