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The works of Eric Frank Russell Author study: By Melanie Keenan Who was Eric Frank Russell? Many people knew him to be very sarcastic in his writings to aim at the authorities. Others knew him to be humorous in a few of his stories, like “Sentinals from space” and “Three to conquer”. In other stories, like “Somewhere a voice”, he became very serious in his tone and in his attitude. To many people, Eric Frank Russell was a funny writer with crazy ideas about what was going to happen it the future. To the rest of the world he was a serous writer of science fiction, who contributed a lot of thoughts and ideas to the Golden Age of Science Fiction. So, which was it? How did he come up with these ideas that technology, and science fiction would grow to be so big and grow so far in to life? To answer the first question, you would have to read each and every one of his novels to consider this question. You would also have to look at both the reader’s and the writer’s point of view of each story. The writer, Eric Frank Russell, might make a comment that was meant to be funny or humorous, but might be taking as an offence by the reader. So, Eric Frank Russell could be classified as both of these types of writers. When he describes each of the characters in his novels, he makes them have different qualities. One character might be funny, so this shows the author’s humorous side while another character might be serous so this shows the author’s serous side. It just depends on how you look at each situation. Another good writing style that Eric Frank Russell possesses is that when he writes, he is very descriptive. As every event unfolds he describes them thoughly. In the story, __“Hobbist”__, when Steve got stranded on the strange planet, he kept a journal on what happened each day. When Eric Russell, as Steve, described the atmosphere on planet x he told about how the planets grew and how they looked so well that you could actually them to be real. Eric Frank Russell became a science fiction writer by noticing technology and thinking about the future and many of his stories the setting was on a different planet or a different environment. He wrote about rocket ships and aircrafts before their official creation, so he wrote way ahead of his time. He contributed much to the Golden Age of Science Fiction by sharing his ideas of the upcoming future and how we would advance through it. His input on the future had many ingenious writing styles and techniques that has helped the further development of science fiction, that is leading us into the further development of technology. So who is Eric Frank Russell? He is a very talented Science Fiction writer leading us to the future

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