John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a British author born in

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whose work spanned a range of popular

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. A professional research chemist and mathematician,Robert M. Price, "About ''The Brooding City''", in ''The Antarktos Cycle'', Chaosium, 2006, , p. 523 he produced more than 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published under

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s by the

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imprint.Steve Holland, ''Badger Tracks: Exploring the publications of John Spencer & Co.'' Underworld Studios, Colchester 1997.

Works

Glasby's output includes: * A small number of publications, such as the novel ''Project Jove'', published as by John Glasby. * Approximately 25

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novels, using pseudonyms such as "A. J. Merak" or "J. L. Powers" and the Badger

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"John E. Muller", "Karl Zeigfreid" and "Victor La Salle". (Using the La Salle pseudonym, Glasby wrote ''Twilight Zone'' (1954), which, whilst unconnected to the American TV series of that name, preceded it in title use by five years.) * More than 30

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novels using the house name "Chuck Adams", and ten as "Tex Bradley". *34 hospital

romance Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, ...

novels published using the pseudonym "D.K. Jennings". * Two crime novels and six desert adventure novels, all using the pseudonym "A.J. Merak". * Six

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-style spy novels published using the pseudonym "Manning K. Robertson". * An unknown number (possibly as many as a hundred) War stories set during

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and published using many different pseudonyms.

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* * English writers English chemists 1928 births 2011 deaths People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford People from Retford English male novelists {{sf-writer-stub