The Complete Short Fiction by Festus Pragnell (.ePUB)
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The Complete Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2020) by Festus Pragnell
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Overview: Festus Pragnell (1905-1977) UK policeman and author who first appeared in the US Pulp magazines with “The Venus Germ” for Wonder Stories in November 1932 with R F Starzl; he published one tale as by Francis Parnell (Festus Pragnell is not a pseudonym). His Don Hargreaves sequence, all set on a lurid Mars, begins with “Ghost of Mars” (December 1938 Amazing) and ends with “Madcap of Mars” (September 1943 Amazing). His first sf novel, The Green Man of Kilsona (July-September 1935 Wonder Stories as “The Green Man of Graypec”; 1936; rev vt The Green Man of Graypec 1950), describes a voyage into a miniature world (see Apes as Human; Great and Small; Little Green Men), where the inhabited planet of Kilsona is discovered. Thieves of the Air (circa 1943 chap) with Benson Herbert describes an attempted theft of Earth’s atmosphere. The Terror from Timorkal (1946) sets a world-threatening crisis in an African Lost World, where the Discovery of a new mineral suitable for the manufacture of super Weapons is exploited by unscrupulous politicians. His last work, “The Machine-God Laughs” (February-December 1948 Fantasy Book), was the title story of The Machine-God Laughs (anth 1949)
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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