PAYNE, (Pierre Stephen) Robert

PAYNE, (Pierre Stephen) Robert
(1911-1983)
   UK-born writer, much travelled, who spent his final years in the USA. Immensely prolific under a variety of names - including Richard Cargoe, John Anthony Devon, Howard Horne and Valentin Tikhonov - he wrotelittle fantasy or sf. The War in the Marshes (1938) as by Robert Young is an allegorical adventure rather in the mode of Rex WARNER. The Deluge (1954), which pretends to be based on notes left by Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519), is sf.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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