Stanley Bennett Hough

Stanley Bennett Hough (25 February 1917 – February 1998) was a British author of science fiction, for which he used the pseudonym Rex Gordon. He also published several novels under his own name. Rex Gordon was born in 1917 in Lancashire. He was a wireless operator on merchant and passenger ships. In WW II he was a wireless operator, his ship was sunk near Algiers. Hough's works as Rex Gordon covered space travel, time travel, alien encounters and planetary colonization. His other novels concerned nuclear warfare, neo-Nazis, crime and political crisis.

Hough was born in Preston, Lancashire and died in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Bibliography

As Rex Gordon

• Utopia 239 (1955)
• No Man Friday (1956)

also published as First on Mars

• First to the Stars (1959)

also published as The Worlds of Eclon

• First Through Time (1962)

also published as The Time Factor

• Utopia Minus X (1966)

also published as The Paw of God

• The Yellow Fraction (1969)

As S. B. Hough

• Frontier Incident (1951)
• Mission in Guemo (1953)
• Extinction Bomber (1956)
• The Bronze Perseus (1959)
• Beyond the Eleventh Hour (1961)
• Fear Fortune, Father (1974)

External links

• Rex Gordon at Fantastic Fiction
• Gordon, Rex at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Rex Gordon at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database