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Born: Established: 1926 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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3 6 y separately published work icon Hits! Skits! and Jingles! W. T. Goodge , Sydney : Bulletin , 1899 Z1169579 1899 selected work poetry humour
1 1 y separately published work icon A Hoax Called Jones Niall Brennan , London : Sheed and Ward , 1962 Z280347 1962 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Twelve Tales of the Life and Adventures of Saint Imaginus : Retold from the Collection Made by His Brethren of the Order of Saint Simplicitus Frances Margaret McGuire (editor), London : Sheed and Ward , 1946 Z870403 1946 selected work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon World D : Being a Brief Account of the Founding of Helioxenon Joseph Kentigern Heydon , J. K. Heydon (editor), London New York (City) : Sheed and Ward , 1935 Z1446012 1935 single work novel fantasy

'A great scientist taps the strange powers of the mind, opening up a whole new science of Psycho-Physics. His mental powers augmented to superhuman capacity by a series of brain-potential-boosting cells, he constructs in the red-hot magma beneath the Pacific Ocean a great cube of force to act as a shelter for selected specimens of humanity against the doom threatening our race. He sends into the outer world his daughter, to bring back a man fit to rule beside her as King of Helioxenon.

'The amazed newcomer witnesses the marvels of the Hallucinators, the Great Machine, the Little Machine, the Memories, and all the diverse superscientific marvels of this world within the Earth. Not the least of Helioxenon's wonders is the Psychophone, with which the scientist keeps in touch with three different worlds of distant solar systems. Truly alien civilizations are described, and the conflict of psychologies involves the shattering of the lovers' hopes unless the icily intellectual beings of Triangulum can be made to see the beauty of human love. The story is a tense drama of interstellar intrigue, bustling with vast and weirdly original comcepts. In at least one respect it is superior to Smith's stories, for while they frequently descend to blood-and-thunder action, the thrills of "World D" are conflicts of minds and personalities. This is a thoroughly adult story.'

Source: Online Review

1 1 y separately published work icon The Risen Sun : Impressions in New Zealand and Australia C. C. Martindale , London : Sheed and Ward , 1929 Z1754058 1929 single work prose travel
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