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Michael Kennedy Joseph (9 July 1914 – 4 October 1981) was a British-born New Zealand poet and novelist in several genres. He studied at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, and at Merton College, Oxford, from 1936 to 1939.[1] During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery.[1] His works range from I'll Soldier No More, A Pound of Saffron and A Soldier's Tale to the science fiction works The Hole in the Zero and The Time of Achamoth to a historical novel, Kaspar's Journey, based on the medieval Children's Crusade. The Hole in the Zero includes the first known use of the word "hoverboard".[2]

Joseph was also a Professor of English at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.[3] In 1969, he edited the 1831 text of Frankenstein for Oxford University Press; in 1980 the text was reissued in the World's Classics series.[4]

Works

Poetry

• Imaginary Islands (1950)
• The Living Countries (1959)

Novels

• I’ll Soldier No More (1958)
• A Pound of Saffron (1962)
• The Hole in the Zero (1967)
• A Soldier’s Tale (1976)
• The Time of Achamoth (1977)
• Kaspar’s Journey (1988)

References

External links

• M. K. Joseph at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review of I'll Soldier No More
• M K Joseph's War Novel I'll Soldier No More
• Cover of A Soldier's Tale (1976)

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