George Allan England (9 February 1877 - 26 June 1936) was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.
George Allan England | |
|---|---|
 England as depicted in Wonder Stories, January 1930 | |
| Born | 9 February 1877 Fort McPherson, Nebraska, United States |
| Died | 26 June 1936 (aged 59) United States |
| Occupation | Writer, explorer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Speculative fiction, science fiction |
Life
editEngland was born in Nebraska.[1] He attended Harvard University, where he received Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees.[1] In 1912 he stood for Governor of Maine as the candidate of the Socialist Party of America.[1] In that election, he finished in third place with 2,081 votes (1.47%).[2] England died in a hospital in New Hampshire, although there is a legend that he disappeared on a treasure hunt.[1]
Writing
editEngland's writing career took place mainly in New York and Maine.[1] Many of his works have a socialist theme.[1] Influences on England's writing include H. G. Wells, Jack London and Algernon Blackwood.[3]
His short story, "The Thing from—'Outside'", which had originally appeared in Hugo Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention, was reprinted in the first issue of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in April 1926.[4] The novel The Air Trust (1915) is the story of a billionaire, Isaac Flint, who attempts to control the very air people breathe, and the violent consequences of his ambition and greed. In the concluding chapter, Flint is described as one of "the most sinister and cruel minds ever evolved upon this planet."[5]
England's trilogy, Darkness and Dawn (published in 1912, 1913 and 1914 as The Vacant World, Beyond the Great Oblivion and Afterglow) tells the story of 2 modern people who awake a thousand years after the earth was devastated by a meteor. They work to rebuild civilization. Richard A. Lupoff has noted that Darkness and Dawn contains "an unfortunate element of racism" (the villains who menace the heroes are descended from African-Americans).[3]
Novels
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- Darkness and Dawn Series
- The Vacant World (1912)
- Beyond the Great Oblivion (1913)
- The Afterglow (1914)
Other Novels
- Beyond White Seas (1910)
- The Elixir of Hate (1910)
- The Empire in the Air (1914)
- The Air Trust (1915)
- The Fatal Gift (1915)
- The Golden Blight (1916)
- The Gift Supreme (1916)
- Bill Jenkins, Buccaneer (1917)
- Cursed (1919)
- The Flying Legion (1920)
- Adventure Isle (1926)
Short stories
edit- Pod, Bender and Co (October 1916) - Short story collection
- When Pod Took the Count
- A Flyer in Annuities
- Birds of Passage
- "Ammunition — With Care"
- Art for Art's Sake
- The Old Homestead
- Pod Flits
- A Game of Solitaire
- Crayons and Clay
- The Turning of the Worm
- Lobsters and Loot
- The Supreme Getaway
- Knight Errants Up-to-Date
- The Kimberley Special
- A Passage at Arms
- Fly-Time
- The Thing--From Outside (2016, short story collection)
| Title | Publication Date | First Published In | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Americano at Cerdos | June 1905 | Leslie's Monthly Magazine | |
| The Time Reflector | September 1905 | The Monthly Story Magazine | |
| At the Eleventh Hour | Dectemer 1905 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| Neevus and the Wolf Pack | February 1906 | The American Boy | |
| The Turning of the Worm | February 1906 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| The Cylinder | June 1906 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| Family Jars: A Little Tale of Cousinly Amenities | June 1906 | The American Magazine | |
| Fire Fight Fire | July 1906 | Munsey's | |
| Vengeance Is Mine | July 1906 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| The Garden of Graft | August 1906 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| The Lunar Advertising Co., Ltd. | August 1906 | The Gray Goose | |
| Birds of Passage | November 1906 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| The Sorrows of Giuseppe | December 1906 | McClure's | |
| Jonas | January 1907 | Munsey's | |
| A Game of Solitaire | March 1907 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Burdocks and Blueberries | April 1907 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| Thad's Watchers | September 1907 | McClure's | |
| The Heart of Love | November 1907 | Cosmopolitan | |
| Ammunition-With Care | February 1908 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| When Pod Took the Count | March 19087 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| The Hand of Blood | April 1908 | The Gray Goose | |
| Three Hearts and a Head | April 1908 | Munsey's | |
| Midsummer Madness | July 1908 | The Outing Magazine | |
| Art for Art's Sake | September 1908 | The Gray Goose | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| The Mermaid | October 1908 | The Scrap Book | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Africa | November 1908 | The Cavalier | |
| King Sullivan | February 1909 | Munsey's | |
| My Time-Annihilator | June 1909 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| The Girl at Gunflint Lake | July 1909 | Munsey's | |
| Pod Flits | August 1909 | The All-Story Magazine | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| A Question of Salvage | September 1909 | McClure's | |
| Below the Cliff | November 1909 | Gunter's Magazine | |
| On Shark's Fin Reef | January 1910 | Munsey's | |
| Day of Days | July 1910 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| The Million-Lira Ticket | September 1910 | The Scrap Book | |
| Failures | October 1910 | The All-Story Magazine | |
| The Old Homestead | October 1910 | The Scrap Book | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Personally Conducted | December 1910 | Adventure | |
| At the Semaphore | February 1911 | The Railroad Man's Magazine | |
| He of the Glass Heart | May 1911 | The Scrap Book | |
| The Chechacko | April 1912 | Adventure | |
| Bill January | May 1912 | The Hampton Magazine | |
| The Million-Dollar Patch | June 1912 | The All-Story | |
| The Shackles of Fate | October 1912 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| A Passage at Arms | March 29, 1913 | The Cavalier | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Oil and Water | March 1913 | Munsey's | |
| Pod Slattery's Peril | April 26, 1913 | The Cavalier | Pod Slattery |
| The Sprucer | May 1913 | Munsey's | |
| The Kimberly Special | June 7, 1913 | The Cavalier | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| The Toss-Up | July 4, 1913 | Harper's Weekly | |
| Fly-Time | July 12, 1913 | The Cavalier | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Thomas Mittens, Stockholder | July 1913 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| The Supreme Getaway | August 23, 1913 | The Cavalier | Pittsburg Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Other Days | October 1913 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| Speedy Limit | November 15, 1913 | The Cavalier | |
| The Lie | December 6, 1913 | The Cavalier | |
| Out of the Real | January 1914 | Munsey's | |
| In Mariners' House | February 7, 1914 | The Cavalier | |
| At Allaguash | April 1914 | People's Ideal Fiction Magazine | |
| Meeting Matchett | April 1914 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| Trousers and Tragedy | July 1914 | Munsey's | |
| Barbed Wire and Buttermilk | September 26, 1914 | All-Story Cavalier Weekly | |
| Legs and the Man | November 1914 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| The Trap | November 1914 | Lippincott's Magazine | |
| Even in Death | December 12, 1914 | All-Story Cavalier Weekly | |
| The Spy | June 1915 | Pearson's Magazine (USA) | |
| Love! | August 1915 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| The Tenth Question | December 18, 1915 | All-Story Weekly | |
| The Plunge | April 1, 1916 | Snappy Stories | |
| Summer | June 1916 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| The Princess Kukupa | July 1916 | All Around Magazine | |
| A Flyer in Annuities | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| A Game of Solitaire | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| Crayons and Clay | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| The Turning of the Worm | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| Lobsters and Loot | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| Knight Errants Up-to-Date | October 1916 | Pod, Beneder and Co | |
| Bill Jenkins, Buccaneer | February–March, 1917 | All-Story Weekly | |
| The Lotus-Eater | April 2, 1917 | Snappy Stories | |
| Relics | May 1, 1917 | Snappy Stories | |
| Fifteen Minutes | June 1, 1917 | Snappy Stories | |
| Odyssey, Jr. | August 4, 1917 | All-Story Weekly | |
| The Mysterious Millionaire | September 1, 1917 | All-Story Weekly | |
| Autumn | September 1917 | The Red Book Magazine | |
| The Clutch of Tantalus | October 10, 1917 | People's Favorite Magazine | |
| The Scapegrace | October 25, 1917 | People's Favorite Magazine | |
| The Affair in Room 99 | November 25, 1917 | People's Favorite Magazine | |
| Journey's End | September 1918 | The Parisienne Monthly Magazine | |
| On the Rack of Fear | November 10, 1918 | People's Favorite Magazine | |
| Phonies All | November 1918 | Breezy Stories | |
| On Grand Cayman | January 1919 | Munsey's | |
| Swamis Twain | January 1919 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| Armageddon Valley | February 1919 | The Blue Book Magazine | Pittsburgh Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Shall - or Shall Not | April 5, 1919 | All-Story Weekly | |
| Bennington's Bath | July 1919 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| A Man | August 1919 | Telling Tales | |
| Bennington's Lemons | April 1920 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Two Ways | September 1920 | Breezy Stories | |
| Bennington's Bus | November 1920 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Bennington's Boom | January 1921 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Fifty-Fifty | March 19, 1921 | The Saturday Evening Post | |
| Recreants Twain | March 1921 | The Blue Book Magazine | Pittsburgh Bender; Pod Slattery |
| Test Tubes | March 1921 | Short Stories | |
| Powers of Darkness | May 1921 | People's Favorite Magazine | |
| Webster Said Something | May 1921 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| As Ye Plant— | August 10, 1921 | Short Stories | |
| Paid in Advance | October 1921 | Munsey's | |
| The Longest Side | November 10, 1921 | People's Favorite Magazine | - |
| Bennington's Bandit | December 1921 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Drops of Death | January 1922 | Munsey's | |
| One Pebble | February 25, 1922 | People's Story Magazine | |
| Bennington's Boy | February 1922 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Sauce | March 1922 | Everybody's Magazine | |
| Twists | April 10, 1922 | People's Story Magazine | |
| Leatherbee's Luck | April 1922 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| A Polite Question | April 1922 | Munsey's | |
| Luck | May 10, 1922 | People's Story Magazine | |
| Friendship | June 10, 1922 | People's Story Magazine | |
| Bennington, Brute | July 1922 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Fern Shadows | July 1922 | Munsey's | |
| Fits | September 25, 1922 | Short Stories | |
| Compacts of Life | December 1, 1922 | Snappy Stories | |
| The Broken Arrow | Jan 12, 1922 | Western Story Magazine | |
| Troubled Waters | March 1, 1923 | People's Magazine | |
| Petticoats | April 1, 1923 | People's Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| The Nogg-Head | July 21, 1923 | The Saturday Evening Post | |
| Rats | October 1, 1923 | People's Magazine | |
| Foam | January 1, 1924 | People's Magazine | |
| Rust | January 15, 1924 | People's Magazine | |
| Honor | May 15, 1924 | People's Magazine | |
| Chance | August 1, 1924 | People's Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Strong Men and Meat | August 10, 1924 | Short Stories | |
| Dice of Destiny | September 10, 1924 | Short Stories | |
| Feathers | September 24, 1924 | Complete Story Magazine | |
| Ch'eng and Foo | October 25, 1924 | Complete Story Magazine | |
| Bennington's Bio-Beauty | October 1924 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Roving | February 25, 1925 | Complete Story Magazine | |
| Half a Brick | June 6, 1925 | The Saturday Evening Post | |
| Ice | August 10, 1925 | Complete Story Magazine | |
| Sir Galahad of Gila | September 1925 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| The Ship That Strayed | October 10, 1925 | Short Stories | |
| Verdict: "Suicide" | November 28, 1925 | Argosy All-Story Weekly | |
| Velvet | December 1925 | Munsey's | |
| Bennington's Birds | January 1926 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Powder | February 1926 | Sea Stories Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Kangaroo | March 1926 | Sea Stories Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Terror | April/May 1926 | Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories | |
| Elephant | July 1926 | Sea Stories Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Ivory | August 1926 | Sea Stories Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| At Plug 47 | October 1926 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| Divorce | February 1927 | Sea Stories Magazine | Captain Leonidas Tripp |
| Cork | March 1927 | Sea Stories | |
| Johnny Moaner | June 1927 | Everybody's Magazine | |
| Dorymates | January 1, 1928 | Adventure | |
| Bananas | February 1929 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| Mamma Told Me | May 1930 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| Bennington the Buccaneer | August 1930 | The Blue Book Magazine | Bennington |
| Stand by to Ram | September 15, 1930 | Adventure | |
| High Explosive | March 1931 | The Blue Book Magazine | |
| Moriarty | May 30, 1931 | Liberty | |
| Rough Toss | May 15, 1932 | The Popular Complete Stories | |
| Locoed | May 20, 1933 | Detective Fiction Weekly | T. Ashley |
| Pipes of Death | Sep 16, 1933 | Detective Fiction Weekly | |
| The Kalanga of Death | November 1933 | Danger Trail | |
| Pieces of the Puzzle | February 3, 1934 | Detective Fiction Weekly | |
| Nothin' Like Leather | April 10, 1934 | Short Stories | |
| Kangaroo | 1944 | Sea Story Annual |
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e f Bleiler, Everett Franklin; Bleiler, Richard (1998). Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years. Kent State University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-87338-604-3.
- ^ Maine Register State Year-Book and Legislative Manual. Portland, ME: Tower Publishing Company. 1980. p. 82.
- ^ a b Richard A. Lupoff, "England, George Allan" in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith. St. James Press, 1986, ISBN 0-912289-27-9 (p.230-1).
- ^ Ashley, Time Machines, p. 51.
- ^ George Allan England. The Air Trust. St. Louis, MO. Phil Wagner. 1915. p. 329.
References
edit- Ashley, Mike (2000). The Time Machines:The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the beginning to 1950. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-865-0.
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