ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins

ADAMS, Samuel Hopkins
(1871-1958)
   US writer, prolific and popular author of novels and screenplays, including that for the film It Happened One Night (1934). He wrote an sf novel with Stewart Edward WHITE (whom see for details), The Mystery (1907), about a ship found at sea with no crew aboard, and supplying an sf explanation for their disappearance: side-effects of a new radioactive element. The sequel, The Sign at Six (1912), also sf, is by White alone. SHA's solo sf books are The Flying Death (1908), an impossible crime tale in which Long Island, New York, is invaded by a pteranodon; and The World Goes Smash (1938), a NEAR FUTURE story of a US civil war in which New York is devastated.

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