NEWTON, W(ilfrid) Douglas

(1884-1951)

   Irish writer who began writing sf with 2 future- WAR novels, War (1914) - prefaced by Robert Hugh BENSON and introduced by Rudyard KIPLING - and The North Afire (1914). Later works include The Golden Cat (1930), The Beggar and Other Stories (coll 1933), which contains a story about guided missiles, "The Joke that Ended War", and Dr Odin (1933), about an attempt to perfect a Nordic "master race". His Savaran series includes two LOST-WORLD stories, "The Great Quest" in I, Savaran (coll 1937) and Savaran and the Great Sands (1939 The Passing Show as "The DevilComes Aboard"; 1939). He contributed sf to various early magazines, including PEARSON'S MAGAZINE, and to the US PULP MAGAZINES, but only a small proportion has been reprinted in book form.

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