Stanley Bennett Hough (25 February 1917 – February 1998) was a British author of science fiction, for which he used the pseudonym Rex Gordon.
Rex Gordon at the SF Encyclopedia
/ref> He also published several novels under his own name.
Hough was a wireless operator on merchant and passenger ships. In World War II his ship was sunk near Algiers.
Hough's works as Rex Gordon covered space travel, time travel, alien encounters and planetary colonization. His other novels concerned nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a theoretical military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conventional warfare, nuclear ...
, neo-Nazis, crime and political crisis.
Hough was born in Preston, Lancashire
Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston local government district. Preston and its surrounding distri ...
and died in Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth ( ; kw, Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,797 (2011 census).
Etymology
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Bibliography
As Rex Gordon
*''Utopia 239'' (1955)
*'' No Man Friday'' (1956)
::also published as ''First on Mars''
*''First to the Stars'' (1959)
::also published as ''The Worlds of Eclos''
*''First Through Time'' (1962)
::also published as ''The Time Factor''
*''Utopia Minus X'' (1966)
::also published as ''The Paw of God''
*''The Yellow Fraction'' (1969)
As S. B. Hough
*''Frontier Incident'' (1951)
*''Moment of Decision'' (1952)
*''Mission in Guemo'' (1953)
*''The Seas South'' (1953)
*''The Primitives'' (1954)
*''Extinction Bomber'' (1956)
*''A Pound a Day Inclusive'' (1957)
*''The Bronze Perseus'' (1959)
::also published as ''The Tender Killer''
*''Expedition Everyman'' (1959)
*''Beyond the Eleventh Hour'' (1961)
*''Expedition Everyman 1964'' (1964)
*''Where? An Independent Report on Holiday Resorts in Britain and the Continent'' (1964)
*''Dear Daughter Dead'' (1965)
*''Sweet Sister Seduced'' (1968)
*''Fear Fortune, Father'' (1974)
*''Creative Writing, a Handbook for Students, Tutors and Educational Authorities (published by WEA South West District)'' (not dated)
As Bennett Stanley
*''Sea Struck'' (1953)
*''The Alscott Experiment'' (1954)
*''Sea to Eden'' (1954)
*''Government Contract'' (1956)
References
External links
Rex Gordon at Fantastic FictionGordon, Rex
at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979. It has won the Hugo, Locus and British SF Awards. Two print editions appeared in 1979 and 1993. A third, continu ...
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1917 births
1998 deaths
20th-century English novelists
English science fiction writers
English thriller writers
Writers from Preston, Lancashire
English male novelists
20th-century English male writers
English male non-fiction writers
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