CAMERON, Eleanor (Butler)
- CAMERON, Eleanor (Butler)
(1912-)
Canadian-born US writer whose career has been exclusively devoted to children's literature, and who received the National Book Award in 1974 for one of her finer fantasies, The Court of the Stone Children (1973); its sequel was To the Green Mountains (1975). She remains perhaps best known for the sf Mushroom Planet sequence with which she began her career: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954), Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (1956), Mr Bass's Planetoid (1958), A Mystery for Mr Bass (1960) and Time and Mr Bass (1967). At the heart of the series is Mr Bass, whose mysterious filter permits his young friends - who have built him a SPACESHIP for the purpose of travelling there - to perceive the planet Basidium. Though perhaps slightly wholesome, the adventures of Bass and his companions on Basidium became, with justice, extremely popular.
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Other works: The Terrible Churnadryne (1959); The Mysterious Christmas Shell (1961); The Beast with the Magical Horn (1963); A Spell is Cast (1964); Beyond Silence (1980), a timeslip fantasy.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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