FRAZER, Shamus

   Pseudonym of UK writer James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer (1912-1966), whose first sf novel, Acorned Hog (1933), satirizes a socialist NEAR FUTURE United Kingdom, and whose second, A Shroud as Well as a Shirt (1935),describes a succession of political conflicts which lead finally to a world war. Blow, Blow Your Trumpets (1945) is a comic satirical fantasy set in the time of Noah, and explains the necessity of the Flood.

   JC