Engel, Leonard
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(1916-1964) US journalist and author, with Emanuel S Piller, of one of the very first Cold War Future War novels, World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950 (1947), in which the USA's control of the air – and use of that preponderance in a nuclear first strike – proves insufficient to crush Russia, nor does a subsequent use of Poison gas turn the tide; the Russians soon attack mainland America with nuclear bombs delivered by rockets and the occasional air strike. Both sides eventually turn to biological warfare. The story is written by a newspaperman in 1955, still in the midst of the Holocaust, as a new "five year plan", designed to guarantee victory, is announced. A sombre humaneness invests the final pages. Engel also edited a nonfiction anthology, New Worlds of Modern Science: A Treasury (anth 1956). [JC]
Leonard Engel
born 1916
died 1964
works
- World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950 (New York: The Dial Press, 1947) with Emanuel S Piller [hb/Grushkin]
- New Worlds of Modern Science: A Treasury (New York: Dell Books, 1956) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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