Laurence Manning

Laurence Manning (January 1, 1899 – April 10, 1972) was a Canadian science fiction author.

Manning was born in St. John, New Brunswick and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1920s he moved to the United States. In the USA, he lived primarily on Staten Island, where he began writing short stories for several pulp science fiction magazines. He wrote "The Voyage of the 'Asteroid'", which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of "Wonder Stories Quarterly", and "The Man Who Awoke", a series of stories that was later published as a novel.

He was a founding member of the American Rocket Society, serving as both president and editor. Manning gave up his successful writing career at the end of 1935 and devoted his time to a mail order nursery business he owned and managed. Apart from several short stories in the 1950s, he never wrote any more science fiction. However, he was the author of a successful book on gardening, "The How and Why of Better Gardening" (1951).

Novels

*"City of the Living Dead" (May, 1930 Science Wonder Stories)
*"The Voyage of the Asteroid" (Summer, 1932 Wonder Stories Quarterly)
*"Wreck of the Asteroid, Part One" (Dec, 1932 Wonder Stories)
*"Wreck of the Asteroid, Part Two" (January, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"Wreck of the Asteroid, Part Three" (February, 1934 Wonder Stories)
*"The Man Who Awoke, Part 1" (March, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"The Man Who Awoke, Part 2" (April, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"The Man Who Awoke, Part 3" (May, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"The Man Who Awoke, Part 4" (June, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"The Man Who Awoke, Part 5" (August, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"The Call of the Mech Men" (November, 1933 Wonder Stories)
*"Caverns of Horror" (March, 1934 Wonder Stories)
*"Voice of Atlantis" (July, 1934 Wonder Stories)
*"The Living Galaxy" (September, 1934 Wonder Stories)
*"The Moth Message" (December, 1934 Wonder Stories)
*"The Prophetic Voice" (April, 1935 Wonder Stories)
*"Seeds From Space" (June, 1935 Wonder Stories)
*"World of the Mist, Part 1" (September, 1935 Wonder Stories)
*"World of the Mist, Part 2" (October, 1935 Wonder Stories)

References

*"Laurence (Edward) Manning" "Contemporary Authors Online", Gale, 2004.
*"Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 251: Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers." A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Douglas Ivison, University of Western Ontario.