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Laurence M. Janifer

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Born: March 16 1933

Died: 0909 07 20022002

Laurence M. Janifer was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years.

Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, but in 1963 took the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Many of his early stories appeared under the "Larry M. Harris" byline.

Though his first published work was a short story in Cosmos magazine in 1953, his career as a writer can be said to have started in 1959 when he began writing for Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction. He co-wrote the first novel in the "Psi-Power" series: Brain Twister, written with Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Mark Phillips. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960, and published in book form in 1962. Janifer's best known work is the "Survivor" series, comprising five novels and many short stories. The series follows the career of Gerald Knave as he visits planets on the outskirts of the civilized galaxy.

In addition to his career as a novelist and short story author, Janifer was an editor for Scott Meredith Literary Agency; editor/managing editor of various detective and science fiction publications; film reviewer for several magazines; and a talented pianist.

Laurence Mark Janifer's pseudonyms include: Alfred Blake, Andrew Blake, Larry M. Harris, Mark Phillips , Barbara Wilson, Tom Beach, Robert J. Cassiday, Robert Cassiday, Lorens M. Dženifer, Renee St. Hahn, Laurance Janifer, Sir David Leeds, William Logan, Siral

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Pagan Passions

Brain Twister

The First Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®: 6 Great Science Fiction Novels

The Impossibles

Queen's Own FBI

New Dimensions 4

Slave Planet

The Woman Without a Name

Bloodworld

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Sight Gag

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1961 February

Det hände i morgon 18

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1965 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #171)

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1985

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1980

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1988

Shared Tomorrows: Science Fiction in Collaboration

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1999 September

Brain Twister