Heming, J W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1900-1953) Extremely prolific Australian author who worked in various genres under various pseudonyms, and began publishing sf novels with The Living Dead (1940); this was the first of his World War Two books with the Australian firm Currawong Publishing, which specialized in the release of native sf, US imports being banned at the time. The protagonist of a title of interest thus produced, King of the Underseas (1941 chap), finds Under the Sea takes over a Utopian Feminist City in order to defend it against another subterranean culture; once equality is established, he returns to the land above. In the Other Worlds sequence beginning with Other Worlds (1942 chap), a Hive Mind civilization based on ruthless Eugenics is found on Mercury; a Pastoral culture dominates Venus; and Mars, in From Earth to Mars (1942 chap), credit cards (see Economics) help maintain an egalitarian society. Heming wrote one sf novel, Time Marches Off: Two Thousand Years from Now (1942 chap), as Paul de Wreder, a Time Travel tale in which Sydney is viewed from the perspective of various eras. [JC]
John Winton Heming
born Richmond, Victoria: 26 December 1900
died Sydney, New South Wales: 9 April 1953
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Mars
- Other Worlds (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1941) [chap: Mars: pb/John Andrews]
- From Earth to Mars (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1941) [chap: Mars: pb/John Andrews]
individual titles
- The Living Dead (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1940) [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- Subterranean City (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1940) [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- King of the Underseas (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1941) [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- The Death of Hitler (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1941) [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- Time Marches Off (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1942) as Paul de Wreder [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- In Aztec Hands, in the Ghost City (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1942) [chap: pb/John Andrews]
- The Pirate Fairies (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1943) [chap: pb/]
- The Weird House (Sydney, New South Wales: The Currawong Publishing Co, 1951) [chap: pb/]
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