The Radio Man - Softcover

Farley, Ralph Milne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479422142 ISBN 13: 9781479422142

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2016

Synopsis

When Myles Cabot is accidentally transmitted to the planet Venus, he finds himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men keep Myles on the run until he discovers the secret of the land: that humans are a slave-race and that the monster-sized ants are the real rulers of the world! But Cabot is resourceful, and when his new-found love, the princess Lilla, calls for help, the ant-men learn what an angry Earthman can do. THE RADIO MAN is a science-fiction adventure packed with the excitement of an Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the scientific vision of an H. G. Wells. You won’t be able to put it down once you start reading!

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About the Author

Ralph Milne Farley Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was a state senator and assistant Attorney General, state of Massachusetts. He also wrote science fiction under the pseudonym of "Ralph Milne Farley". The Harvard-educated Hoar was the product of a New England family—the son of Sherman Hoar, grandson of former US Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandson of Samuel Hoar, and great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Hoar received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1909 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1911. During World War I, he served in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Hoar was a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general. He was a member of the Marquette University faculty in the graduate school of engineering. He also served as attorney of Bucyrus Erie Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley, Hoar wrote a considerable amount of pulp-magazine science fiction during the period between the world wars, appearing in such publications as Argosy All-Story Weekly, Weird Tales, True Gang Life, and Amazing Stories, as well as occasional essays for The American Mercury, Scientific American, and science fiction fanzines. His works include The Radio Man and its numerous sequels, chiefly interplanetary and inner-world adventure yarns in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, with whom he was friends; Hoar also wrote a number of archetypal time-travel-paradox tales, collected in book form as The Omnibus of Time, and "The House of Ecstasy," told in the second-person and frequently reprinted since its initial appearance in Weird Tales (April 1938 issue). Upon relocating to the Midwest, where he worked as a corporate attorney for the firm of Bucyrus-Erie, Hoar joined the Milwaukee Fictioneers, whose members included Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, and Raymond A. Palmer. When Chicago-based Ziff-Davis Publishing Company bought the ailing Amazing Stories in 1938, Hoar was offered, but declined, the magazine's editorship and recommended Palmer, who held the position through the 1940s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479422142
• ISBN 13: 9781479422142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134