PAINE, Lauran (Bosworth)

(1916-)

   US rancher and author, extraordinarily prolific in several fields, with nearly 1000 books under his own name and 85 pseudonyms, almost all for ROBERT HALE LIMITED, over 600 of them Westerns and a very few of them sf. This Time Tomorrow (1963) was published under his own name; further routine SPACE OPERAS are: Focolor (1973) as by Roy Ainsworthy; A Crack in Time (1971), The Undine (1972), Another View(1972), Bannister's Z-Matter (1973) and The Underground Men (1975) as by Mark Carrel; and The Harbinger (1972), The Misplaced Psyche (1973) and Kernel of Death (1973) as by Troy Howard.

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