page_title: Laurence Manning
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Laurence Manning / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Wonder Stories, November 1933
context_page_description: Laurence Manning was a Canadian science fiction author.
  Manning was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As did his two older brothers, Manning signed up to participate in WWI, but he was too young - when the War ended, he was still in training, and never saw action overseas. He signed his attestation papers for the RFC on 14 May 1918.
  In the 1920s he moved to the United States, living initially with his great uncle, Craven Langstroth Betts, the noted Canadian poet. In the US, he lived in Manhattan before moving to Staten Island in 1928, where he began writing short stories for several pulp science fiction magazines. After teaming with SF writer Fletcher Pratt in "City of the Living Dead" in the May, 1930 issue of Science Wonder Stories, he wrote "The Voyage of the 'Asteroid'", which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and The Man Who Awoke, a series of stories that was later published as a novel. He also translated at least one German-language story for Hugo Gernsback's magazines
context_section_description: Native Flowering Evergreens (American Forests and Forest Life, July 1925)
  Fuzzy  (American Forests and Forest Life, October 1925)
  Elaiah, an Easter Story of the Trees  (American Forests and Forest Life, April 1927)
  Several articles in Better Homes and Gardens (Need Volume/Issue Numbers)
  City of the Living Dead  co-authored with Fletcher Pratt (May, 1930 Science Wonder Stories), reprinted by Gernsback Publications in 1939
  The Voyage of the Asteroid  (Summer, 1932 Wonder Stories Quarterly)
  In The Year 8000  (by Otfrid von Hanstein, translated by Laurence Manning and Konrad Schmidt)(Jul, Aug, Sep, 1932 Wonder Stories)
  Wreck of the Asteroid, Part One (Dec, 1932 Wonder Stories)
  Wreck of the Asteroid, Part Two  (January, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  Wreck of the Asteroid, Part Three  (February, 1934 Wonder Stories)
  The Man Who Awoke, Part 1 (March, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  The Man Who Awoke, Part 2  (April, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  The Man Who Awoke, Part 3  (May, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  The Man Who Awoke, Part 4  (June, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  The Man Who Awoke, Part 5  (August, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  The Call of the Mech Men  (November, 1933 Wonder Stories)
  Caverns of Horror  (March, 1934 Wonder Stories)
  Voice of Atlantis (July, 1934 Wonder Stories)
  Interview with Laurence Manning (July, 1934 Fantasy Magazine)
  The Living Galaxy  (September, 1934 Wonder Stories)
  The Moth Message  (December, 1934 Wonder Stories)
  The Prophetic Voice  (April, 1935 Wonder Stories)
  Seeds From Space  (June, 1935 Wonder Stories)
  World of the Mist, Part 1  (September, 1935 Wonder Stories)
  World of the Mist, Part 2  (October, 1935 Wonder Stories)
  Coal Thief  (April, 1936 The Planeteer)
  Expedition to Pluto  (Winter, 1939 Planet Stories (With Fletcher Pratt))
caption: Manning's "The Call of the Mech-Men " was the cover story for the November 1933 issue of Wonder Stories
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