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Craig, C W Thurlow

(1901-1985) UK author who served in World War One; his very Near Future sf novel, Plague Over London (1939), predicts that in World War Two, imminent at the time of writing, the Germans would employ nerve gas (see Poison) in an assault upon London. [JC]

Charles William Thurlow Craig

born Gresford, Wrexham, Wales: 14 September 1901

died Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales: 10 September 1985

works

• Plague Over London (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1939) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 16:07 pm on 10 September 2026.
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