Dyer, George
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(1903-1978) US academic, political historian – instructor in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University – and author of two books of somewhat marginal sf interest. A Storm Is Rising (1934) is about a Near-Future conspiracy to overthrow the American government; in The Long Death: A Catalyst Club Murder Mystery (1937), a proto-nuclear physicist is murdered (by long distance X-Rays) at the point of discovering how to harness the atom (see Nuclear Energy). [JC]
George Bell Dyer
born Washington, District of Columbia: 21 April 1903
died New Hope, Pennsylvania: 8 November 1978
works
- A Storm Is Rising (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934) [hb/]
- The Long Death: A Catalyst Club Murder Mystery (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937) [hb/]
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