KEARNEY, (Elfric Wells) Chalmers
- KEARNEY, (Elfric Wells) Chalmers
(1881-1966)
Australian-born writer, in the UK most of his life, author of the nonfiction Rapid Transit in the Future (only 2nd edn recorded, 1911). His UTOPIA, Erone (1943; rev 1945), an old-fashioned love-story set in arather sentimentalized communist society on Uranus, had some popular success, though now forgotten. A short pamphlet, The Great Calamity (1948 chap), itemizes the destruction of most of the world.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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