HOME Search Search for: Search Mad Shadows Darker than Weird Hither Came Conan Get Back Issues of Black Gate Recent Comments See all of our recent Vintage Treasures here. Francis McComas, Eric Frank Russell, and Leigh Brackett Our most recent Eric Frank Russell coverage includes:Ĭreatures From Beyond, edited by Terry Carr It contains five novels ( Sentinels From Space, Wasp, Sinister Barrier, Next of Kin, and Call Him Dead), a smattering of short fiction, and an introduction by Jack L. Pollinger in Print published a digital edition in January 15, 2009.įor modern readers interested in finding a copy, your best bet is Entities: The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell, still in print in hardcover from NESFA Press. Sadly, Wasp is no longer in print as a standalone novel, but there are so many editions that it’s not hard to get hold of a copy cheaply. It has had several editions from Gollancz, including January 2002 (below left, cover by Jim Burns), and May 2013 (below right, cover by Dominic Harman.) Most recently, Wasp was selected by Gollancz for their highly-regarded SF Masterworks series, starting in April 2000. The editions shown here are only a few of the multiple reprintings.īantam Books picked it up in June 1971 (below left, cover by Gene Szafran), followed by Methuen in the UK in February 1986 (below middle, cover by Terry Oakes), and Del Rey (below right, cover by Barclay Shaw), also in February 1986. Wasp was kept in print all through the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s - an amazing accomplishment in a field where novels typically remained in print for a matter of months. It was later serialized in three parts in the UK in New Worlds Science Fiction, starting in March 1958 (above middle, cover by Brian Lewis.) The first UK paperback edition was from Panther in March 1963 (above right, cover by Richard Powers). Wasp was first published in hardcover by Avalon Books in Nov 1957 (above left, cover by Ric Binkley). Like virtually all of Russell’s work, it remained in print for decades. Its first paperback appearance in the US was in February 1959, from Perma Books (above click for bigger images).
All alone, he wages a campaign of terrorism to bring down a vast alien empire. His fifth novel, Wasp (1957), is the story of a human saboteur, sent to the home planet of a hostile race during an interstellar war. His first novels, including Sinister Barrier (1939), Dreadful Sanctuary (1948), and Sentinels from Space (1953), made him instantly popular in the United States and his home country, the UK.
His prose sparkles, and his stories have genuine warmth and humor. Eric Frank Russell is one of my favorite early SF writers.
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