WRIGHT, Lan

   Working name of UK writer and white-collar worker Lionel Percy Wright (1923-) for all his fiction. He began publishing sf with "Operation Exodus" for NW in 1952, and was active for over a decade. His Johnny Dawson series in NW, about intrigues between Earth and the planet Luther, were partly assembled in Assignment Luther (1955-7 NW; fixup 1963); "Joker's Trick" (1959) and "The Jarnos Affair" (1960) remaineduncollected. LW had earlier begun publishing novels with Who Speaks of Conquest? (1957 dos US).

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   Other works: A Man Called Destiny (1958 dos US); Exile from Xanadu (1964 dos US; vt Space Born 1964 UK); The Last Hope of Earth (1965 US; vt The Creeping Shroud 1966 UK); The Pictures of Pavanne (1968 dos US; vt A Planet Called Pavanne 1968 UK).

   See also: MATTER TRANSMISSION.