Charles Roland Tanner (February 17, 1896 – 9 January 1974) was an American science fiction and fantasy author who wrote in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Tanner's first short story was "The Color of Space", published in ''
Science Wonder Stories
''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Sto ...
'' in 1930. Within a few years, he created his character Tumithak, who featured in three stories published during Tanner's lifetime ("Tumithak of the Corridors", "Tumithak in Shawm", and "Tumithak and the Towers of Fire") and a fourth, "Tumithak and the Ancient Word", published posthumously in 2005.
During the
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...
, one of Tanner's three children died, while his wife suffered an extended hospitalization for
tuberculosis
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.
["Meet the Authors", ''Amazing Stories'', June 1938, pp. 6–7]
Bibliography
*"The Color of Space" (1930)
*"The Flight of the Mercury" (1930)
*"Tumithak of the Corridors" (1932)
*"Tumithak in Shawm" (1933)
*"The Vanishing Diamonds" (1938)
*"Out of the Jar" (1941)
*"The Stillwell Degravitator" (1941)
*"The Improbable" (1941)
*"Tumithak of the Towers of Fire" (1941)
*"Cham of the Hills" (1942)
*"The Luck of Enoch Higgins" (1942)
*"The Revolt of the Machine Men" (1942)
*"Mutiny in the Void" (1943)
*"Mr. Garfinkel and the Lepra-Cohen" (1950)
*"Johnny Goodturn" (1950)
*"Angus MacAuliffe and the Gowden Tooch" (1951)
*"Tumithak and the Ancient Word" (2005)
References
External links
All of Tanner's stories at Tumithak.comBiography: "The Writings of Charles R. Tanner"*
1896 births
1974 deaths
American fantasy writers
American horror writers
American science fiction writers
American male poets
American male novelists
American male short story writers
20th-century American poets
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
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