George langelaan biography
Curse of the fly!
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1908-1972) French-born UK author and journalist, an intelligence agent in World War Two (underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance), active for many years in the USA before returning to France; his first work of genre interest in English became his most famous story, "The Fly" (June 1957 Playboy), the macabre tale of an unsuccessful experiment in Matter Transmission in which the hapless Scientist ends up with the head of a fly (see Horror in SF) and vice-versa.
George langelaan biography
It was filmed as TheFly (1958), whose sequels were Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965). The story was re-adapted by David Cronenberg as TheFly (1986), with the science updated to include molecular genetics; this too spawned a sequel, TheFly II (1989).
In 2008 the story was made into an opera. Two of Langelaan's other short stories have been adapted for Television: "Strange Miracle" (August 1958 Argosy), about a man pretending to be