PENDRAY, (George) Edward

PENDRAY, (George) Edward
(1901-1987)
   US writer and rocket scientist, a founding member of The American Interplanetary Society, and author of The Coming Age of Rocket Power (1945); he was also involved in the Time Capsule featured at the 1939 New York World's Fair. As Gawain Edwards he published some stories in sf magazines in the 1920s and 1930s and a future- WAR novel, The Earth-Tube (1929), in which Asians take advantage of their possession ofthe invulnerable metal undulal to tunnel under South America, which they soon conquer. After a young hero has penetrated the secret, catastophic explosions close the tunnel, inundating South America but sparing the USA, which has transformed itself into a socialist regime in response to the free gold which the Asians have been raining from the skies in an effort to destabilize the great capitalist democracy.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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