BOUNDS, Sydney J(ames)

(1920-)

   UK writer, active in various fields from the late 1940s, publishing his first HORROR fantasy, "Strange Portrait", for Outlands in 1946. He built a considerable (and well respected) oeuvre of short fiction in various genres, though he has never published a collection. Since the beginning of the 1970s he has concentrated on horror. Under at least nine pseudonyms (and house names like Peter SAXON, which he used for a Sexton Blake tale), SJB has published over 30 novels, mostly Westerns. His sf includes The Moon Raiders (1955), which features stolen U-235, human agents shanghaied to the Moon, and alien invaders, and The World Wrecker (1956), which stars a mad SCIENTIST who blows up cities by placing phase-shifted rocks under them and returning these rocks to normal spacetime, with calamitous effects. Of his numerous COMIC strips, "Jeff Curtiss and the V3 Menace" (Combat Library \#44 1960) is typical.

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   Other works: Dimension of Horror (1953); The Robot Brains (1956).