SHANKS, Edward (Richard Buxton)
- SHANKS, Edward (Richard Buxton)
(1892-1953)
UK editor and writer in various genres whose sf novel, The People of the Ruins: A Story of the English Revolution and After (1920), uses
SUSPENDED ANIMATION to take a man 150 years onwards from a strife-torn 1924 into a balkanized primitive land whose descent into final chaos his reintroduction of WWI weaponry fails to prevent. Coming so soon after WWI, this novel may be the first to express the conservative aftermath pessimism (ES's 1924 is ruined by labour strife) that soon became common in UK sf.
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Other work: Old King Cole (1936), involving the revival of ancient British rites.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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