author
George Henry Weiss
1898–1946
A pulp-era science fiction writer and poet, he published memorable speculative stories under the pen name Francis Flagg. His work appeared in major early genre magazines and helped shape the feel of interwar science fiction and fantasy.
2 Audiobooks
The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds
by George Henry Weiss
The Heads of Apex
by George Henry Weiss
About the author
Born in 1898 and remembered today both by his own name and by the pseudonym Francis Flagg, he was a poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose work appeared in magazines such as Amazing Stories, Astounding, Tales of Wonder, and Weird Tales. Sources consistently describe him as an American writer, and some note that he was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
His reputation rests mainly on his science fiction and fantasy stories, which blended literary polish with the imagination of the pulp magazines. He died in 1946, and his novel The Night People was published shortly afterward in 1947.
For listeners who enjoy early speculative fiction, his work offers a glimpse into a formative moment in the genre, when strange ideas, eerie moods, and adventurous storytelling were finding a wide popular audience.