Sydney James Bounds (4 November 1920 – 24 November 2006) was a British author. He published as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as using the pseudonyms Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote more than forty novels and hundreds of short stories, many published using pseudonyms or anonymously. He was known best for his science fiction, but also wrote horror, Westerns, mysteries and juveniles. Bounds' debut professional sale using his own name occurred during 1946 in the first issue of the magazine Outlands, the publication of which left Bounds feeling that his post-war career as an electrical fitter was less interesting than one writing fiction. Bounds never married. He lived in Kingston upon Thames until May 2006, when he relocated to Telford, Shropshire where he died on 25 November 2006 at the age of 86. Since 2007 his name is honoured by the British Fantasy Awards' Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award (a revival of the earlier Icarus and Newcomer Awards), which is sponsored and funded by his estate. In 2013, his short story "The Animators" was made into a movie called The Last Days on Mars.

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