Manning, Laurence

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Wiki Biography:
- Laurence Manning (July 20, 1899 – April 10, 1972) was a Canadian science fiction author.
- Manning was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As did his two older brothers, Manning signed up to participate in WWI, but he was too young – when the War ended, he was still in training, and never saw action overseas.
- In the 1920s Manning moved to the United States, living initially with his great uncle, Craven Langstroth Betts, the noted Canadian poet. In the US, he lived in Manhattan before moving to Staten Island in 1928, where he began writing short stories for several pulp science fiction magazines. After teaming with SF writer Fletcher Pratt in “City of the Living Dead” in the May, 1930 issue of Science Wonder Stories, he wrote “The Voyage of the ‘Asteroid'”, which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and The Man Who Awoke, a series of stories that was later published as a novel. He also translated at least one German-language story for Hugo Gernsback’s magazines (this may have been the translation of his popular story “The Man Who Awoke,” published as Der Jahrtausendschläfer (The Millennium Sleeper). However, In the July, August and September, 1932 issues of Wonder Stories appeared “In the Year 8000”, by Otfrid von Hanstein, translated by Manning, teamed with Konrad Schmidt.
- He was a founding member of the American Interplanetary Society, serving as both president and editor of the Society’s publication, Astronautics. For his involvement in the Society, Manning is recognized by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum as an early rocketry pioneer.
Fourth Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=10881
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