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(1890-1935) UK soldier, politician – Liberal Member of Parliament 1922-1924 – playwright and author in various genres, in active service during World War One. Apparently inadvertently, he created one of the lasting myths of the conflict in his novel about the German execution of Edith Cavell, Dawn: A Biographical Novel of Edith Cavell (1928), in which a German soldier named Rammler refuses to participate in the firing squad, and is himself executed. Berkeley's belief in Rammler's existence was speculative. Of his fiction of interest, Unparliamentary Papers and Other Diversions (coll 1924) contains a spoof interplanetary tale; in his Scientific Romance, Cassandra (1931), a worker's revolt instigates an Invasion of the UK by Soviet Russia. The story is told through the viewpoint of a future archaeologist (see Ruins and Futurity) examining the little that has survived of London. [JC]
born London: 18 August 1890
died Beverley Hills, California: 30 March 1935
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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