and played Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet, and was directed by David Cronenberg with a libretto by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Bibliography His books and short fiction include: One Named Langdon: Memories of a Secret Agent or Un nommé Langdon (1950) "The Fly" (in Playboy, June 1957; reprinted in the Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, edited by Herbert Van Thal, 1960) "Strange Miracle" (in Argosy, August 1958) The Masks of War: From Dunkirk to D-Day—The Masquerades of a British Intelligence Agent (1959) American edition published by Doubleday The Knights of the Floating Silk (1959) "Elaine" (in Argosy, January 1959) "Danse Macabre" (in Argosy, April 1959) "Albatross" (in Argosy, December 1959) "The Secret Notebooks of Agent P.P. 751" (1960–1963) series in the publication Controls "I Rescued a Harem Wife" (in Suspense, August 1960) "Cold Blood" (in New Worlds, October 1961) "The Other Hand" (in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1961) "Zombie Express Train" (1964) "The Dolphin Speaks Too" (1964) Out of Time (collection, 1964) "Attack-Rifle-2nd" "Torpedo the Torpedo" "Salad of Heads" (1965) The Flight of Anti-G or Le Vol de l'anti-G (1968) "The Thinking Robots" or "The Collector of Brains", "Les Robots pensants" in French Turncoat (1967) The New Parasites or Les Nouveaux parasites in French, with Jean Barral (1969) Thirteen Phantoms or Treize fantomes (1971) Screen adaptations The following movies and television episodes were based on his short stories: The Fly (1958) (story) The Return of the Fly (1959) (short story "The Fly") Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Strange Miracle" (1962) (story) Curse of the Fly (1965) (concept and characters) (uncredited) Night Gallery episode "The Hand of Borgus Weems" (1971) based on his short story "The Other Hand" Hyperion (1975) (story) Le Collectionneur des cerveaux (1976) (writer) also known as Les Robots pensants (The Thinking Robots) in French The Fly remake, or La Mouche in French (1986) (short story) The Fly II (1989) (characters) Honors His 1957 short story classic "The Fly" received Playboy magazine's Best Fiction Award and was selected for inclusion in the Annual of the Year's Best Science Fiction. References External links George Langelaan at the FictionMags Index George Langelaan at the Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition The cover of the June, 1957 issue of Playboy, which contained the classic short story "The Fly" George Langelaan @ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd (online) edition. 1908 births Langelann, George