TWEED, Thomas F(rederick)

(1890-1940)

   UK publisher and writer in whose first sf novel, Rinehard: A Melodrama of the Nineteen-Thirties (1933; vt Gabriel Over the White House: A Novel of the Presidency 1933 US), filmed as Gabriel Over the White House (1933), a NEAR FUTURE US President, after a car crash, begins to transform society, providentially destroys a Japanese war fleet through the use of air power, and - after recovering his old personality - dies before he can dismantle the new world order. Blind Mouths (1934; vt Destiny's Man 1935 US) less interestingly posits the collapse of society. Both books arewritten with smooth gravity.

   JC