Snaith, J C
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1876-1936) UK author, mostly in his early career of sentimental romances, of which Mrs Fitz (1910), set in a Ruritania, is of moderate interest; The Coming (1917), set in England, is a fantasy about the Second Coming of Christ. His first sf novel, An Affair of State (1913), is set in a Near Future England raddled by social strife; The Council of Seven (1921) describes a totalitarian Dystopia governed by the eponymous cabal with life-and-death powers over those who threaten its vision of world peace; and Thus Far (1925) depicts the creation of an enormously powerful, amoral, telepathic Superman by the application of various Rays, chemicals and, as E F Bleiler states, "glandular extracts from a missing link" (see Apes as Human; Evolution; Genetic Engineering); Bleiler further suggests that Snaith may have published an earlier work describing the discovery of this link, but no such work has yet been unearthed. [JC]
John Collis Snaith
born Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: 1876
died London: 8 December 1936
works
- Mrs Fitz (London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1910) [hb/]
- An Affair of State (London: Methuen and Co, 1913) [hb/uncredited]
- The Coming (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917) [hb/]
- The Council of Seven (London: W Collins and Sons, 1921) [hb/]
- Thus Far (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925) [hb/]
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