Bulmer, Kenneth 1921–2005
Bulmer, Kenneth 1921–2005
(Alan Burt Akers, Ken Blake, Frank Brandon, Henry Kenneth Bulmer, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Arthur Frazier, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Kenneth Johns, a joint pseudonym, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Neil Langholm, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Charles R. Pike, Andrew Quiller, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford, Tully Zetford)
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born January 14, 1921, in London, England; died December 16, 2005. Bulmer was a prolific and popular science-fiction author best known for his long-running "Dray Prescot" series. Enamored as a boy by the science-fiction pulp magazines he read, he began contributing short stories to them when he was still a teenager. After serving in World War II, he began publishing science-fiction novels in the 1950s, beginning with the cowritten Space Treason (1952). Over the next thirty years, he published over one hundred and fifty novels, often under various pen names. His most popular stories feature the adventures of nineteenth-century British naval officer Dray Prescot, who finds himself suddenly taken to the war-torn planet Kregen.
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Times (London, England), February 21, 2006, p. 62.