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Groves, Jay

(1922-2010) US teacher of history and economics, and author whose short sf novel – featuring the landing of a flying saucer (see UFOs) – is Fireball at the Lake: A Story of Encounter with Another World (1967). [JC]

Jay Voelker Groves

born Minneapolis, Minnesota: 4 August 1922

died Somerset, Kentucky: 16 September 2010

works

• Fireball at the Lake: A Story of Encounter with Another World (New York: Exposition Press, 1967) [chap: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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