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Radcliffe, Garnett

(1898-1971) UK author of occasional sf, who also wrote detective thrillers as by Stephen Travers; of sf interest is the title novella of The Return of the Ceteosaurus, and Other Tales (coll 1926), which pits a huge saurian (see Dinosaurs) against a Death Ray. The Great Orme Terror (1934) is a crime thriller whose Villains deploy murderous Robots. The ocean liner threatened by a resident ape (see Apes as Human) in In the Grip of the Brute (1937) has some of the lineaments of the Ship of Fools. The task of the heroine of The Lady from Venus (1947) is to acquire Earth eggs for use back home on Venus as a form of currency (see Money). [JC]

Henry Garnett Radcliffe

born Meath, Ireland: 7 August 1898

died London: February 1971

works

• The Return of the Ceteosaurus, and Other Tales (London: Drane's, 1926) [coll: hb/]
• The Prisoners in the Wall (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1933) [hb/]
• The Great Orme Terror (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1934) [hb/]
• In the Grip of the Brute (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937) [hb/Bip Pares]
• The Lady from Venus (London: Macdonald and Co, 1947) [hb/James Broom Lynne]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 12:14 pm on 7 March 2026.
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