RUSSELL, Bertrand (Arthur William)
- RUSSELL, Bertrand (Arthur William)
(1872-1970)
UK mathematician, philosopher and controversialist who succeeded to the family title, becoming Third Earl Russell, in 1931. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Near the end of his immensely long career - he published his first essays in 1894, his first book being German Social Democracy (1896) - he published 3 books containing a series of fable-like tales: Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories (coll 1953), Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories (coll1954) and Fact and Fiction (coll 1961), all being assembled as The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell (omni 1972). Somewhat after the manner of VOLTAIRE, these tales - some, like "The Infra-Redioscope" from the first volume and "Planetary Effulgence" from the last, are sf - didactically (though with grace) embody their author's sceptical attitude toward human ambitions and pretensions, and to the ideas with which we delude ourselves.
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Other works include: History of the World in Epitome, for Use in Martian Infant Schools (1962 chap).
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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