H. M. Egbert

Born in 1879 and known more fully as Victor Rousseau Emanuel, he was a British-born author who also wrote as H. M. Egbert and V. R. Emanuel. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, he spent increasing amounts of time in the United States after first arriving in 1901, with periods back in Britain and in Canada from 1912 to 1916.

He began publishing before the First World War and became especially associated with pulp fiction. His work ranged across science fiction, fantasy, and adventure, and included novels such as The Devil Chair, The Sea Demons, The Messiah of the Cylinder, and Draught of Eternity. Critics have noted the energy and flair of his storytelling, which helped make him a memorable figure in early magazine science fiction.

Rousseau continued writing speculative fiction into the early 1940s and died in 1960. Today he is remembered as one of the vivid voices of early popular fantasy and science fiction, with H. M. Egbert serving as one of the names under which that work reached readers.