LOOMIS, Noel (Miller)

(1905-1969)

   US writer and editor, active in the magazine field for some time, publishing work under his own name and as Benjamin Miller, and a book as by Silas Water. Though his first novel, Murder Goes to Press (1937), was a thriller, he was most successful as an author of Westerns.In his first sf novel, City of Glass (1942 Startling Stories; exp 1955), based on his first sf story, three men are time-warped into a desolate distant future on Earth; "Iron Men" (1945) is a sequel. A second novel, The Man with Absolute Motion (1955) as by Silas Water, is likewise set ina desolate venue; in this case the Universe is running out of energy. After saving the Universe, the eponymous hero takes an Eve figure back toa depopulated Earth, and plans to breed.

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