GROOM, (Arthur John) Pelham
- GROOM, (Arthur John) Pelham
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UK writer whose long series of Peter Mohune novels were mostly crime stories; the last two, however, concern themselves with the implications of nuclear power. In The Fourth Seal (c1947) Mohune comes across a secret society which has privately developed atomic fission. In The Purple Twilight (1948) he travels to MARS in search of the descendentsof ATLANTIS, finding instead telepathic members of a dying Martian race, who tell him they themselves destroyed Atlantis in self-defence, but later fell into an arms race leading to the nuclear civil war that sterilized them all. When Mohune returns to Earth he finds a similar arms race developing, with similar sterilizing weapons. He tells of his experiences - in vain.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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