Rex Thomas Vinson, is an English

England

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 teacher, artist and science fiction

Science fiction

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 author active in writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who wrote under the pen name

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 of Vincent King. His most successful book was his novel Candy Man (1971), which went through a number of editions in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries, and was a selection of the UK Science Fiction Book Club in 1972. His novels were published by Gollancz

Victor Gollancz Ltd

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, Tandem

Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd

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, Sphere Books

Sphere Books

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 and Futura Publications in England, and Ballantine Books

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 in the United States. His short fiction was published in John Carnell

John Carnell

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's New Writings in SF

New Writings in SF

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series. Some of his work has been translated into French

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, Spanish

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 and German

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Novels

• Light a Last Candle (1969)
• Candy Man (1971)
• Another End (1971)
• Time Snake and Superclown (1976)

Short stories

• "Defense Mechanism" (1966)
• "The Wall to End the World" (1967)
• "Testament" (1968)
• "The Eternity Game" (1969)
• "Report from Linelos" (1969)
• "The Discontent Contingency" (1971)

General references