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R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood
1876–1923
An early science-fiction writer with a taste for bold ideas, he imagined body-swapping across planets and journeys into unseen realms long before such themes became common. Though his published output was small, his novels still stand out for their curiosity and sense of wonder.
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Zarlah the Martian
by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood
About the author
Born in Liscard, Cheshire, on June 17, 1876, Robert Norman Grisewood was a British-born writer who later made his life in the United States. Reliable reference sources note that he emigrated to America in 1895, was naturalized in 1921, and died in New York on February 9, 1923.
Grisewood is remembered mainly for two speculative novels: Zarlah the Martian (1909) and The Venture: A Story of the Shadow World (1911). Both books explore striking early science-fiction ideas, especially identity transfer and travel beyond ordinary human experience.
His work belongs to that fascinating moment when science fiction was still taking shape, mixing scientific curiosity with dreamlike imagination. Even with only a small body of known fiction, Grisewood has remained of interest to genre historians and readers of early planetary romance.