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'Captain Anson MacLeod, United States Army Aviator during the World War, and now a well known Engineer in Aeronautics, is on a year's much needed vacation in Europe. He is having tea in the garden of an exclusive club in Paris, and becomes interested in a beautiful young lady at the next table, with surprising results. From then on the intricate mystery story of the "Winged Avenger" begins, taking the reader on a yacht to four little islands in the Pacific Ocean, and not until the closing chapter is the mystery unravelled' (1935 Green Press edition). The narrative is also played out in Australia at one stage.
In Notes on Australian Science Fiction Graham Stone writes:
In Notes on Australian Science Fiction Graham Stone writes:
This is in the tradition of plots and counterplots involving radical new weapons. In this case a remote controlled unmanned torpedo-carrying aircraft, a guided missile as it would later be called. But on the first page we have the means of neutralising it along with other engines of war: 'a new invention of a radio beam of light... so powerful that it would stop all machinery in motion, areoplanes, motor cars, warships, submarines. All would be made powerless by this radio wave, and wars would be fought with machines guided and controlled by mechanical robots instead of human beings (pp.139-140).
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Invention and Discovery
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 136-140)
— Review of The Land of the Unseen 1902-1903 single work short story ; The Mystery of the Luminous Ray 1935 single work novel ; The Lady Calphurnia Royal 1909 single work novel ; The Half God 1933 single work novel ; The Radium Terrors 1911 single work novel ; Ubique, the Scientific Bushranger 1910 single work novel ; A Corner in Water 1909 single work novel ; The Goldseekers : A Tale of Adventure : A Gold-extracting Motor and the Sahara Desert 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Secret of the Sargasso 1909 single work children's fiction ; The Moon-Dial 1928 single work novel ; Our Lady of the Leopards 1911 single work novel ; The Ant Men 1955 single work novel ; The Star Germs 1928 single work novella ; The Green Flame 1924 single work novella ; The Story of a Lost Planet, or, The Wonderful Submarine 1911 single work novella ; Marama : A Tale of the South Pacific 1913 single work novel ; The Recipe for Rubber : A Romance of the South Pacific 1911 single work novel ; The Winged Avenger : A Romance and Adventure 1935 single work novel
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Invention and Discovery
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 136-140)
— Review of The Land of the Unseen 1902-1903 single work short story ; The Mystery of the Luminous Ray 1935 single work novel ; The Lady Calphurnia Royal 1909 single work novel ; The Half God 1933 single work novel ; The Radium Terrors 1911 single work novel ; Ubique, the Scientific Bushranger 1910 single work novel ; A Corner in Water 1909 single work novel ; The Goldseekers : A Tale of Adventure : A Gold-extracting Motor and the Sahara Desert 1910 single work children's fiction ; The Secret of the Sargasso 1909 single work children's fiction ; The Moon-Dial 1928 single work novel ; Our Lady of the Leopards 1911 single work novel ; The Ant Men 1955 single work novel ; The Star Germs 1928 single work novella ; The Green Flame 1924 single work novella ; The Story of a Lost Planet, or, The Wonderful Submarine 1911 single work novella ; Marama : A Tale of the South Pacific 1913 single work novel ; The Recipe for Rubber : A Romance of the South Pacific 1911 single work novel ; The Winged Avenger : A Romance and Adventure 1935 single work novel
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- Sydney, New South Wales,
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