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Colin Wilson


UK flag (1931 - 2013)

Colin Henry Wilson was born and raised in Leicester, England, U.K. He left school at 16, worked in factories and various occupations, and read in his spare time. When Wilson was 24, Gollancz published The Outsider (1956) which examines the role of the social 'outsider' in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent Van Gogh and Wilson discusses his perception of Social alienation in their work. The book was a best seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain. Critical praise though, was short-lived and Wilson was soon widely criticized.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Gerard Sorme
   1. Ritual in the Dark (1960)
   2. Man Without a Shadow (1963)
     aka The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme
   3. The God of the Labyrinth (1970)
     aka The Hedonists
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Spider World
   1. The Tower (1987)
   2. The Delta (1987)
   3. The Magician (1990)
   4. Shadowland (2002)
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Spider World : The Tower
   1. The Desert (1988)
   2. The Tower Book 2 (1987)
   3. The Fortress (1989)
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Novels
   Adrift in Soho (1961)
   The World of Violence (1963)
     aka The Violent World of Hugh Greene
   Necessary Doubt (1964)
   The Glass Cage (1966)
   The Mind Parasites (1967)
   The Philosopher's Stone (1969)
   The Return of the Lloigor (1969)
   The Killer (1970)
   The Black Room (1971)
   Lingard (1972)
   The Space Vampires (1976)
     aka Lifeforce
   Starseekers (1980)
   The Personality Surgeon (1985)
   The Magician from Siberia (1988)
   The Devil's Party (2000)
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Colin Wilson recommends
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The Dice Man (1971)
(Dice Man, book 1)
Luke Rhinehart
"Brilliant ... very impressive."

Anthologies containing stories by Colin Wilson
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Rapid Eye 1 (2001)
edited by
Simon Dwyer
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Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
edited by
Anonymous
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The Antarktos Cycle (1990)
Horror and Wonder at the Ends of the Earth
edited by
Robert M Price

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