SNELL, Edmund

SNELL, Edmund
(1889-?)
   UK writer, exceedingly prolific between the Wars, specializing in thrillers (often with Oriental villains) and mysteries. He wrote some sf books, including Kontrol (1928), in which a mad SCIENTIST switches a genius brain into an athlete's body and vice versa; he is in league with a Bolshevik agent who has built a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-offaerial juggernauts and a UTOPIAN supercity on a secret ISLAND with an active volcano. It is a well written sf thriller with an exuberance that lifts it above the ordinary.The Sound-Machine (1932) likewise features a crazed inventor; this one uses sound-waves to kill and disintegrate.
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   Other works: The Yellow Seven (1923); The Yu-Chi Stone (1925); Blue Murder (1927); The White Owl (1930); The "Z" Ray (1932); The Sign of the Scorpion (1934).
   See also: ISLANDS; POLITICS; WEAPONS.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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