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R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood
1876–1923
An early science-fiction writer with a taste for strange worlds and interplanetary adventure, he is best remembered for the 1909 novel Zarlah the Martian. His work belongs to the lively, imaginative period before modern science fiction fully took shape.
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Zarlah the Martian
by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood
About the author
Born in 1876, Robert Norman Grisewood was a UK-born writer who later emigrated to the United States in 1895 and became a naturalized citizen in 1921. Though little biographical detail is widely recorded, reference sources agree on those broad outlines of his life and place him among the lesser-known early writers of speculative fiction.
Grisewood is chiefly remembered for two novels of science-fiction interest: Zarlah the Martian (1909) and The Venture: A Story of the Shadow World (1911). These books reflect the adventurous spirit of early twentieth-century popular fiction, when stories of Mars, hidden realms, and scientific wonders were captivating readers.
He also received a screenwriting credit for the 1915 film The Plague Spot. Grisewood died in 1923, but his fiction still attracts readers interested in the roots of science fiction and the curious byways of pulp-era imagination.