George Allan England
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George Allan England (1877 – 1937) was an American writer and explorer.
A short story of his, "The Thing from—'Outside'", which had originally appeared in Hugo Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention, was reprinted in the first issue of the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in April 1926.[1] His novel The Air Trust (1915) is the story of a billionaire, Isaac Flint, who attempts to control the very air people breathe, and the violent consequences of his ambition and greed. In the concluding chapter, Flint is described as one of "the most sinister and cruel minds ever evolved upon this planet." [2]
His trilogy, Darkness and Dawn (published in 1912, 13, 14 as "The Vacant World", "Beyond the Great Oblivion" and "Afterglow" tells the story of 2 modern people who awake a thousand years after the earth was devestated by a meteor. They work to rebuild civilization.
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[edit] References
- Ashley, Mike (2000). The Time Machines:The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the beginning to 1950. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-865-0.
[edit] External links
- Works by George Allan England at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Allan England in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- George Allan England at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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