Francis flagg

Born in 1898 . Studied at the University of California . He is the author of non-fiction books and science fiction works that were published in the 1920s and 1930s in the magazines Amazing Stories , Weird Tales and others. Under his real name, he published poetry in the magazines Driftwind, Contemporary Verse and Bozart.

Francis Flagg made his science fiction debut with the short story The Machine Man of Ardathia (Amazing Stories, November 1927 ), followed by several successful works that stood out from the then-fiction magazine. Several Flagg stories published in Weird Tales made it onto the recommended lists of annual anthologies of the best American stories. All this allows us to consider him, despite the relatively small number of publications, a sufficiently significant author of the "era of Guernsback ."

Flagg stopped writing fiction in the mid-1930s; subsequently one of his stories, co-written with Forrest J. Akkerman , was published in 1936 ; another short draft by Weaver Wright, published in 1947 .

He died in 1946 .

• Often there is a spelling of Flagg's real name in the form of “George Henry Weiss,” but the spelling “Henry George Weiss” is correct. (See his article “Why I Use a Pen Name” in “Fantasy Magazine,” February / March 1935 ).