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Laurence James
| Full Name: | Laurence William James |
| Born: | September 21, 1942 West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Died: | February 10, 2000 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK |
| Occupation: | Editor, Writer |
| Nationality: | British |
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Biography
Laurence James also writes under the pen name of Richard Haigh
Laurence James was a British science fiction writer, especially known for his involvement with the "Deathlands" series.
After a variety of other jobs (scaffolding, teaching, bookselling, trawler-hand, lumberjack and short-order cook in a greasy spoon) James worked publishing other people's books. In 1972 he embarked on the career of "a full-time freelance author and journalist". For several years thereafter he published short science fiction stories in both Britain and the US.
In 1974 he published his first full-length novel, "Earth Lies Sleeping" -- the first in a series focused on the exploits of a galactic secret agent named Simon Rack. At the time he was living with his wife and their three children in Roydon, an Essex village. In addition, around 1974, James published the fantasy saga of Hells Angels in England & Wales in the early 1990s under the name Mick Norman.
James was an author active under his own name and under at least nine pseudonyms and house names, including James Axler, James Barton, James Darke, Richard Haigh, William James, John M McLaglen, James McPhee, James W Marvin, Jonathan May, Christopher Molan, Klaus Netzen, Mick Norman and some further house names for non-fantastic work, including James Frazier, Neil Langholm and Andrew Quiller, all of which he shared with Kenneth Bulmer; his non-sf or fantasy output spread over various genres including Westerns, thrillers, historical romances and soft-core pornography. Over one four-year period he averaged about a book a month.
