NOYES, Pierrepont B(urt)

(1870-1959)

   US businessman and writer whose The Pallid Giant: A Tale of Yesterday and Tomorrow (1927; vt Gentlemen: You are Mad! 1946) places in an ominous NEAR FUTURE context the discovery of records of a long-dead ancient race, which destroyed itself with DEATH RAYS. Before the last moments, however, its scientists had through GENETIC ENGINEERING set the ape on an upward course. But now, in the 20th century, death rays have just been invented. The narrator warns the world.

   JC