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Edmund Cooper
Also known as: Richard Avery, George Kinley
Born in Marple, near Stockport, Cheshire, Edmund Cooper was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Didsbury Training College. He left school at age 15 to be a labourer, became a public servant at age 16, and at began training to be a sailor at age 17. At age 19 he married. He became and worked as a teacher but disliked the profession and left it to become a full-time writer. In 1954, his stories began appearing in magazines. He was a contributor to the BBC and wrote the story for the MGM film "The Invisible Boy" in 1957. He also used the pseudonyms "Richard Avery" and "George Kinley".
International Space Monitoring Buoy Number Six was alone.
— from The tenth planet
Most acclaimed
Flying saucers
Flying Saucers and Science Fiction - essay by Isaac Asimov What Is This Thing Called Love? - short story by Isaac Asimov Pagan - short story by Algis Budrys The Beholders - short story by A. Bertram Chandler Sense of Wonder - short story by A. Bertram Chandler Trouble with the Natives - short story by Arthur C. Clarke The Lizard of Woz - short story by Edmund Cooper The Grantha Sighting - short story by Avram Davidson The Merchant - short story by Larry Eisenberg The Mouse - short story by Howard Fast The Time for Delusion - novelette by Donald Franson Small Miracle - short story by Randall Garrett All the Universe in a Mason Jar - short story by Joe Haldeman Correspondence Course - short story by Raymond F. Jones Sam - short story by Leo P. Kelley The Mississippi Saucer - short story by Frank Belknap Long Posted - short story by Mack Reynolds Speak Up, Melvin! - short story by Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh [as by C. C. Rössel-Waugh] Exposure - short story by Eric Frank Russell The Gumdrop King - short story by Will Stanton Saucer of Loneliness - short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness) Fear Is a Business - short story by Theodore Sturgeon The Painter - short story by Thomas Burnett Swann The Deadly Ones - short story by F. L. Wallace The Junk Man Cometh - novelette by Robin Scott Wilson Flying Pan - short story by Robert F. Young
Transit
"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real."-- "Sequel to Rachel Cusk's Outline"--