Mark Phillips (author)
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Mark Phillips was the joint pseudonym used by science fiction writers Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett in the early 1960s. Together they authored several humorous short novels in the so-called "Psi-Power" series: Brain Twister (1962), The Impossibles (1963), and Supermind (1963). For Brain Twister they were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960 (under the novel's original title, "That Sweet Little Old Lady"). They also co-authored the novel Pagan Passions (1959) with Garrett using his own name and Janifer using his Larry M. Harris pseudonym.
Laurence Janifer and Randall Garrett
Laurence Janifer was a prolific
In the early 1960s Janifer teamed with Randall Garrett, a prolific contributor to
Psi-Power Series
The first story they wrote in this so-called "Psi-Power" series was "That Sweet Little Old Lady," published in the Sept./October 1959 edition of
"That Sweet Little Old Lady" (Brain Twister) was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960 but lost out to Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.
Laurence Janifer and Randall Garrett did not work together on any other stories after the completion of the Psi-Power series.
Texts online
- Brain Twister, Pyramid Publications, (1962). [1]
- The Impossibles, Pyramid Publications, 1963, 2nd edition, 1966. [2]
- Supermind, Pyramid Publications, (1963). [3]
External links
- Psi-Power series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Laurence M. Janifer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Randall Garrett at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database