Masters, Dexter
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1908-1989) US editor and author, mostly resident in the UK in later life (due to McCarthyite persecution in the 1950s), whose only sf novel was The Cloud Chamber (1971), in which World War Three drives the nations of the world Underground. As an editor, he is significant for One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb (anth 1946 chap) with Katherine May, in which several significant scientists – including members of the Manhattan Project – suggested controversially that in order for humanity to survive the new era of Nuclear Energy a world state would be required. [JC]
Dexter Wright Masters
born Springfield, Illinois: 1908
died Springfield, Illinois: 5 January 1989
works
- One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company/Whittlesey House, 1946) with Katherine May [anth: chap: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Cloud Chamber (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1971) [hb/Joan Brady]
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