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Edgar Wallace enjoyed writing science fiction. ‘Planetoid 127’, first published in 1929 but reprinted as late 1962, is a short story about an Earth scientist who communicates via wireless with his counterpart on a duplicate Earth orbiting unseen because it is on the opposite side of the Sun. The idea of a mirror Earth or mirror Universe later became a standard subgenre within science fiction. The story also bears similarities to Rudyard Kipling’s hard science fiction story ‘Wireless’. Wallace’s other science fiction works include ‘The Green Rust’, a story of bio-terrorists who threaten to release an agent that will destroy the world’s corn crops, ‘1925’, which accurately predicted that a short peace would be followed by a German attack on England, ‘The Black Grippe’, which is about a disease that renders everyone in the world blind, and The Sodium Lines; or, The Day the World Stopped.
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace’s work.
Table of Contents:
Planetoid 127
The Green Rust
1925 – The Story of a Fatal Peace
The Black Grippe
The Day the World Stopped
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