John Rankine (writer)


John Rankine was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason. Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, attended Chester Grammar School, and in 1937 began study of English Literature and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester, where he was a friend of Anthony Burgess.
His first short story Two's Company was published in 1964, and his first novel From Carthage Then I Came followed in 1966.
His 1972 novel The Resurrection of Roger Diment features the idea of an abbreviated life span for people, a theme which may have been adapted from William F. Nolan's novel Logan's Run, though Mason's story was developed differently.
Rankine also wrote television novels set in the same universe as the television series Space: 1999.

Novels

Source:
  • From Carthage Then I Came a.k.a. Eight Against Utopia
  • Ring of Violence
  • The Tower of Rizwan
  • Landfall is a State of Mind
  • The Weisman Experiment
  • The Janus Syndrome
  • Matrix
  • Horizon Alpha
  • Dilation Effect
  • Satellite 54-Zero
  • The Resurrection of Roger Diment
  • The End Bringers
  • The Phaeton Condition
  • Operation Umanaq
  • The Omega Worm
  • Pitman's Progress
  • Euphor Unfree
  • Mission to Pactolus R.
  • The Star of Hesiock
  • The Typhon Intervention
  • In the Eye of the Storm
  • ''The Darkling Plain''

Series

Dag Fletcher
  1. The Blockade of Sinitron
  2. Interstellar Two-Five
  3. One is One
  4. The Plantos Affair
  5. The Ring of Garamas
  6. The Bromius Phenomenon
Space 1999
  • 2 Moon Odyssey
  • 5 Lunar Attack
  • 6 Astral Quest
  • 8 Android Planet
  • 10 Phoenix of Megaron
Space Corporation
  1. Never the Same Door
  2. Moons of Triopus
Also
Binary Z

Collections

Tuo Yaw
  • ''BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ: And Other Short Stories''

Anthologies containing stories by Douglas R Mason

New Writings in SF 1 New Writings in SF 7 New Writings in SF 9 New Writings in SF 11 New Writings in SF 16

Short stories

  • "Folly to Be Wise"
  • "The Man Who Missed the Ferry"
  • "There Was This Fella..."
  • ""
  • "All Done by Mirrors"
  • "Algora One Six"
  • "Second Run at the Data"