author
Laurence Manning
1899–1972
A Canadian-born writer from the early pulp era, he helped shape adventurous science fiction with stories about future societies, space travel, and long-sleep awakenings. His work is especially remembered for the imaginative series later collected as The Man Who Awoke.
1 Audiobook
Expedition to Pluto
by Fletcher Pratt, Laurence Manning
About the author
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1899, he later moved to the United States and became active in the early science-fiction world. Reliable reference sources describe him as a Canadian-born author whose fiction appeared in the pulp magazines of the 1930s, when the genre was still finding its voice.
He wrote both on his own and with Fletcher Pratt, and he is closely associated with stories such as The City of the Living Dead, The Voyage of the Asteroid, and the linked tales that became The Man Who Awoke. Reference sources also note that he was involved with early amateur rocketry circles and helped found the American Interplanetary Society, connecting his fiction with the era's real excitement about spaceflight.
Though not as widely known today as some later science-fiction names, he is often remembered by genre historians as an inventive early contributor whose ideas anticipated themes that became central to modern SF.