The Complete Short Fiction by Festus Pragnell (2020)
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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
Content:
The Venus Germ
Men of the Dark Comet
The Isotope Men
The Essence of Life
A Visit to Venus
The Green Man of Graypec (Part One)
The Green Man of Graypec (Part Two)
What Has Gone Before
The Green Man of Graypec (Conclusion)
Man of the Future
Monsters of the Moon
Ghost of Mars
Warlords of Mars
War of Human Cats
Kidnaped in Mars
Outlaw of Mars
Devil Birds of Deimos
Into the Caves of Mars
Twisted Giant of Mars
Conspirators of Phobos
Collision in Space
Madcap of Mars
The Machine-God Laughs (Part One)
The Machine-God Laughs (Part Two)
The Machine-God Laughs (Part Three)
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