![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first volume its protagonist – an amateur spy whose sensitivity to the psychic emanations of others is of ESP intensity – becomes involved in Ruritanian conflicts, the successful resolution of which frustrates Hitler the second very tentatively establishes an Alternate History whose Jonbar Point is the assassination of Hitler after Munich and his substitution by a puppet figure (never here encountered) under the control of "the extreme radicals of the party": but the tale only hints at possible consequences in the very Near Future. His first fiction, the short Hiram Holliday sequence comprising Adventures of Hiram Holliday (stories March-September 1939 Cosmopolitan as "Tales of Six Cities" coll of linked stories 1939 vt The Adventures of Hiram Holliday 1939) and The Secret Front (June-November 1940 Cosmopolitan as "The Strange War of Hiram Holliday" 1940), interestingly fails to anticipate much of the actual flavour of World War Two. (1897-1976) US journalist, screenwriter and author, sports editor for the New York Daily News for twelve years beginning in 1923, known mainly for such works outside the sf field as The Snow Goose (9 November 1940 Saturday Evening Post exp 1941 chap vt The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk 1941 chap), a sentimental novella extremely popular in time of war. ![]()
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