RUSSELL, W(illiam) Clark

(1844-1911)

   US-born UK writer and sailor (1858-66), most of whose prolific output dealt with sailors and the sea. Of sf interest are The Frozen Pirate (1887), in which a French pirate, frozen for years in coldclimes, is resuscitated briefly and tells the narrator where there is some buried treasure, and The Death Ship, A Strange Story: An Account of a Cruise in "The Flying Dutchman" (1888; vt The Flying Dutchman 1888 US),which tries to add scientific verisimilitude to the legend. Other works of interest include some of the stories in Phantom Death and Other Stories (coll 1895).

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   See also: CRYONICS; IMMORTALITY.