Russell was awarded a posthumous Prometheus Hall of Fame award in 1985 for "The Great Explosion", and in 2000 he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He won the first Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1955 for his humorous short story "Allamagoosa". He became an active member of British science fiction fandom and the British representative of the Fortean Society. After serving with the Royal Air Force during World War II and working briefly as an engineer, Russell took up writing full-time in the late 1940s. His second novel, Dreadful Sanctuary (serialized in Astounding during 1948) is an early example of conspiracy fiction, in which a paranoid delusion of global proportions is perpetuated by a small but powerful secret society. This is an explicitly Fortean tale based (as Russell explains in the novel's foreword) on Charles Fort's famous speculation "I think we're property". Russell's first novel was Sinister Barrier, published in the first issue of Astounding's short-lived sister magazine Unknown (March 1939). Both Russell and Johnson became members of the British Interplanetary Society.
Together, the two men wrote the novella "Seeker of Tomorrow" which was published in Astounding in July 1937.
Russell met up with Johnson, who encouraged him to embark on a writing career. Johnson, another reader from the same area.
Russell became a fan of science fiction, and in 1934 while living near Liverpool he saw a letter in Amazing Stories written by Leslie J. Munro was used most often.Russell was born in 1905 in Sandhurst in Berkshire, where his father was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy. A few of his stories were published under pseudonyms, of which Duncan H. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Eric Frank Russell (JanuFebruary 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.
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