SUTPHEN, (William Gilbert) Van Tassel

(1861-1945)

   US writer whose The Nineteenth Hole: Being Tales of the Fair Green: Second Series (coll 1901) includes 2 tales of golfing sf (GAMES AND SPORTS), one set in 1999 when the game fully dominates US life. The Doomsman (1906) depicts a medievalized post- HOLOCAUST USA where dashing Doomsmen run a protection racket from Manhattan and an old priest keeps an electric dynamo humming. All ends in tears.

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