Edmund Cooper was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Didsbury Training College. He left school at age 15 to be a labourer, became a public servant at age 16, and at began training to be a sailor at age 17. At age 19 he married. He became worked as a teacher but disliked the profession and left it to become a full-time writer. In 1954, his stories began appearing in magazines. He was a contributor to the BBC and wrote the story for the MGM film "The Invisible Boy" in 1957. He also used the pseudonym "Richard Avery."
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british science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction in English, English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction adventure, post-apocalyptic, science fiction short story collection, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction short story collection, Science fiction short stories collection, Aliens, American Science Fiction, American Science fiction, British science fiction, English Short stories, Fiction in English, 1900- Texts, Fiction, general, Fictionin English, Flying Saucers, Genocide, Human cloning, Indians of South AmericaTime
1950 to 1970s SFID Numbers
- OLID: OL1638611A
- VIAF: 99813500
- Wikidata: Q1286138
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1286138
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- Richard Avery
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