LATHAM, Philip

LATHAM, Philip
   Pseudonym used for his sf by US astronomer Robert Shirley Richardson (1902-1981). He began publishing sf in the magazines in 1946 with "N-Day" for ASF, and continued to 1977, with 20 or so stories in all; many had astronomical themes (ASTRONOMY). The most anthologized is "The Xi Effect" (1950), in which Earth is found to be in a segment of the Universe that iscontracting. Many of the later stories, oddly, are as much about MAGIC as they are HARD SF. PL wrote two CHILDREN'S SF stories: Five against Venus (1952) and Missing Men of Saturn (1953), and around the same time alsowrote scripts for the juvenile tv series CAPTAIN VIDEO. As Robert S. Richardson he wrote astronomical articles for sf magazines, the story "KidAnderson" (1962), the semifictional Second Satellite (1956), and over 10 books on astronomy, including the juvenile Exploring Mars (1954; vt Man and the Planets UK).
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