WARD, Herbert D(ickinson)

(1861-1932)

   US writer, most of whose short stories of sf interest were political dramas whose venues were only marginally displaced from the late-19th-century USA, even though some of the tales assembled in A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories (coll 1891) wereostensibly set 100 years hence. The White Crown, and Other Stories (coll 1894) continued in the same vein, though the title story itself is afuture- WAR tale of some interest.

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   Other works: The Master of the Magicians (1890) with Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; A Dash to the Pole: A Tale of Adventure in the Ice-Bound North (1895).