M'Guire, Sean
Entry updated 23 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of unidentified UK author (? -? ) who (it has been suggested) may have been a pilot in World War One. He published two Lost Race novels of interest. Spider Island (1929), set on an Island in the South Pacific, features the discovery of a range of Monsters under the sway of a race of web-footed amphibians. Beast or Man? (1930) combines Lost Race and feral child modes (remotely evoking Tarzan in its beginning chapters), but then shifts fifty years into the Near Future as an Apes as Human tale of some significance. Having reached manhood, the "Tarzan" figure trains his half-human son to arm his tribe with Weapons, and otherwise subject them to Uplift. Their defence of their homeland is treated with some sympathy. In the end, inevitably (see Imperialism; Race in SF), they are destroyed. [JC]
"Sean M'Guire"
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works
- Spider Island (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1929) [hb/]
- Beast or Man? (London: Cecil Palmer, 1930) [hb/Beresford Egan]
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