Barnes, James
Entry updated 17 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1866-1936) US author, mostly on nautical themes for Young Adult readers, whose sf novel, The Unpardonable War (1904), is Near Future Edisonade in which – after an "unpardonable" war between Britain and America has been incited because America wishes to free Ireland and to embark upon an Invasion of Canada – the scientific genius Westland, "the Wizard of Staten Island", invents a device which explodes the enemy's gunpowder. America then takes the lead in suppressing war everywhere. [JC]
James Barnes
born Annapolis, Maryland: 19 September 1866
died Plainsboro, New Jersey: 30 April 1936
works
- The Unpardonable War (New York: Macmillan, 1904) [hb/]
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