WARNER, Rex

WARNER, Rex
(1905-1986)
   UK writer and translator who remains best known for his earliest adult novels, The Wild Goose Chase (1937), The Professor (1938) and The Aerodrome (1941), political allegories some of whose devices relate to the KAFKA-esque side of sf (ABSURDIST SF; FABULATION). In The Wild Goose Chase 3 brothers bicycle into a strange country in search ofthe eponymous goose, and encounter and participate in a revolution - which ultimately they cause to triumph - in a DYSTOPIAN society. The Aerodrome depicts within the allegorical confines of an aerodrome an attempt at violently remoulding human nature. Why Was I Killed? (1943; vt Return of the Traveller 1944 US) is an afterlife fantasy. RW was always clear about which side he stood on in these metaphysical conflicts, a didactic sidedness which sometimes quite evidently detracted from the imaginative power of his fiction.
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   See also: HISTORY OF SF.

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