J.C. Snaith

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J.C. Snaith


Born
in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, The United Kingdom
February 23, 1876

Died
December 08, 1936

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John Collis Snaith.
UK author, mostly in his early career of sentimental romances, of which Mrs Fitz (1910), set in a Ruritania, is of moderate interest; The Coming (1917), set in England, is a fantasy about the Second Coming of Christ. His first sf novel, An Affair of State (1913), is set in a Near Future England raddled by social strife; The Council of Seven (1921) describes a totalitarian Dystopia governed by the eponymous cabal with life-and-death powers over those who threaten its vision of world peace; and Thus Far (1925) depicts the creation of an enormously powerful, amoral, telepathic Superman by the application of various Rays, chemicals and, as E F Bleiler states, "glandular extracts from a missing link" (see Apes as Human; Evolut
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The Sailor

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Thus Far

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The Undefeated

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The Van Roon

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William Jordan Junior

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Araminta

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The Council of Seven

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The Principal Girl

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Henry Northcote

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The Adventurous Lady

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