Space Warp collects two novellas from 'one of the greats of the earlier ages.'
Space Warp:
In Annex 10 in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, the scientists under the leadership of astronomer Dr. Gray could hardly believe what their instruments had told them. But there was to be no mistake; the equipment was true, and at four o'clock on that ill-fated day of June 30th, they bore witness to the chaos in store for mankind.
The stars flared.
Temperatures rocketed as the sun shone through the night and the world was plunged into an endless day. Everywhere people suffered, rich and poor, criminal and family man, and none knew if surcease would ever come.
Into the Unknown:
Time and again the hapless four were pitched headlong from their various vantage points. Yet always they survived, to gaze again upon the horrors and destruction of a dangerously young planet. Then, as suddenly as they came, the upheavals passed. In the eerie stillness, the streaking sun and near moon reappeared.
A lurch: backwards and backwards, through all the vicissitudes of hurtling ages, until there appeared the vividly green Carboniferous Age. A coagulation of excessive vegetation, festering swamps and fetid lagoons; the vegetation turning to peat, and through the pressures of chemical change, the peat to hard black coal. Coal for the future that had already been destroyed. Paradoxes: infinite and complete.
"... A pioneer of science fiction [... ] he was one of the Greats of the earlier ages, and his name should be there with Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Murray Leinster, and all the others whose thoughts and works formulated today's modern science fiction." - John Carnell, New Worlds
John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Statten's Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world.
Space Warp:
In Annex 10 in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, the scientists under the leadership of astronomer Dr. Gray could hardly believe what their instruments had told them. But there was to be no mistake; the equipment was true, and at four o'clock on that ill-fated day of June 30th, they bore witness to the chaos in store for mankind.
The stars flared.
Temperatures rocketed as the sun shone through the night and the world was plunged into an endless day. Everywhere people suffered, rich and poor, criminal and family man, and none knew if surcease would ever come.
Into the Unknown:
Time and again the hapless four were pitched headlong from their various vantage points. Yet always they survived, to gaze again upon the horrors and destruction of a dangerously young planet. Then, as suddenly as they came, the upheavals passed. In the eerie stillness, the streaking sun and near moon reappeared.
A lurch: backwards and backwards, through all the vicissitudes of hurtling ages, until there appeared the vividly green Carboniferous Age. A coagulation of excessive vegetation, festering swamps and fetid lagoons; the vegetation turning to peat, and through the pressures of chemical change, the peat to hard black coal. Coal for the future that had already been destroyed. Paradoxes: infinite and complete.
Praise for John Russell Fearn:
"... A pioneer of science fiction [... ] he was one of the Greats of the earlier ages, and his name should be there with Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Murray Leinster, and all the others whose thoughts and works formulated today's modern science fiction." - John Carnell, New Worlds
John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Statten's Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world.
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