WHITE, Fred(erick) M(errick)

(1859-19?)

   UK writer who contributed sf to Pearson's Magazine, The Strand Magazine and other general fiction magazines in the early 1900s. He continued writing well into the 1920s, being best known for his Doom of London DISASTER series for Pearson's Magazine - "The Four White Days"(1903), "The Four Days' Night" (1903), "The Dust of Death" (1903), "A Bubble Burst" (1903), "The Invisible Force" (1903) and "The River of Death" (1904) - in which London and the UK are subjected to a variety of calamities. Catastrophe is turned to the UK's advantage in his only sf novel, The White Battalions (1900): a shift in the flow of the Gulf Stream leads to arctic conditions in mainland Europe, so that the UK is able to win a WAR.

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