John Lymington

The Power Ball (The John Lymington SciFi/Horror Library #23) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As long ago as 1937, the successful inventor and scientist Sir Arthur Barnes created a device which generated electricity on a practical scale without the need of fuel or machinery or power distribution lines. When he died a year later in an accident, he died with his secret intact. No generator was visible, and any notes he had ever made had been hidden or destroyed. Why?
War was imminent, and Barnes's nephew, beginning a career at a Government department, was sent down to the house in Cornwall because aircraft testing RDF equipment had detected untranslatable signals coming from there.
The nephew found the generator, and perhaps the answer to the mystery of Arthur's silence. The generator gave a by-product, and that product was one which seemed to create the terrible figure of fate as something real and approaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Piccadilly
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215803578
• Artikelnr.: 75908090

Autorenporträt

John Richard Newton Chance was born in Streatham Hill, London, in 1911, the son of Dick Chance, a managing editor at the Amalgamated Press. He studied to become a civil engineer, and then took up quantity surveying, but gave it up at 21 to become a full-time writer. He wrote for his father's titles, including "Dane, the Dog Detective" for Illustrated Chips, and a number of stories for the Sexton Blake Library and The Thriller Library. He went on to write over 150 science fiction, mystery and children's books and numerous short stories under various names, including John Lymington, John Drummond, David C. Newton, Jonathan Chance and Desmond Reid. Including 20+ SF potboilers, adding that he "made a steady income by delivering thrillers to Robert Hale (the UK publisher) at a chapter a week". His novel Night of the Big Heat was adapted to television in 1960 and to film, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, in 1967.