Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses

by Dwight V. Swain

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Genres: Science Fiction

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 3, 2010

About the author

Dwight Vreeland Swain's first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941. He contributed stories in the science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure genres to a variety of pulp magazines.

He joined the staff in the extremely successful Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma training writers of commercial fiction and film. He pioneered scripting documentaries and educational/instructional films using dramatic techniques rather than the previously common talking heads. In the 1960s, he scripted a motion picture, Stark Fear, starring Beverly Garland and Keith Toby. He later wrote non-fiction books about writing, including Techniques of the Selling Writer, Film Scriptwriting, Creating Characters, and Scripting for Video and Audiovisual Media, and was much in demand as a speaker at writers' conferences throughout the US and Mexico.

Reviews

[Beatrice Drury · Rating 3 out of 5]

Henry Horn has invented a pair of X-Ray glasses. A nudist colony is next door to the Professor and Henry's house. The glasses work and the government wants them. After all it is 1942 and there is a war. I enjoyed the story but was disturbed by the verbal abuse heaped on Henry by the Professor.

[S.M. Norden · Rating 5 out of 5]

A typically good sci fi story.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖍️ Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses was actually hilarious! Henry devises steel-framed X-ray glasses, a nudist colony moves in next door, and then the fun begins. This is a very clean, no profanity short story. The dénouement is very funny!
(Also see:
💫Henry Horn's Blitz Bomb Amazing Stories June 1942.
💫 Henry Horn's Super-Solvent, in Fantastic Adventures November 1941).

📕 Published in Amazing Stories, December 1942.

☞Why this book? Short science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction are my bag.

જ⁀➴🟢The e-book version can be found HERE on Project Gutenberg .
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