CLOUSTON, J(oseph) Storer

(1870-1944)

   Scottish magistrate and usually humorous author. JSC began writing works of genre interest with Tales of King Fido (coll 1909), a Graustarkian fantasy (RURITANIA). His books of genre interest include Two's Two (1916), an F. ANSTEY-like fantasy about an embodied alter ego; Button Brains (1933), about a ROBOT that is taken for the human upon which it was modelled, with comic consequences; The Chemical Baby (1934), marginal as the baby turns out to be natural; Not Since Genesis (1938), a satirical look at the European nations faced by a meteoritic DISASTER; and The Man in Steel (1939), a TIME-TRAVEL tale.

   JE/JC

   See also: ANDROIDS; HUMOUR.