SARBAN

SARBAN
   Pseudonym of UK writer John W. Wall (1910-1989), a career diplomat for the UK from 1933 until his retirement in 1966. Most of the short stories assembled in Ringstones, and Other Curious Tales (coll 1951) and The Doll Maker, and Other Tales of the Uncanny (coll 1953) are pure fantasy, butthe haunting and nightmarish THE SOUND OF HIS HORN (1952) has often been conscripted to the sf ranks by sf critics, for it is partially set in an ALTERNATE WORLD, a Germany 100 years after the Nazis have triumphed inWWII (HITLER WINS); the evocation of this timeless RURITANIAN enclave, however, is as a pure fantasy land, ruled over by a charismatic Master Forester (an avatar of Herne the Hunter), where untermensch dissidents arehunted down for sport; the dark, flamboyant imagery of erotic chastisement is startlingly fetishistic.
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   See also: GAMES AND SPORTS.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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