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Shafer, Robert

(1920-    ) US academic and author of The Conquered Place (1954; vt The Naked and the Damned 1955), a Near Future tale in which the eastern half of America has suffered a Russian Invasion; a resistance movement soon develops in the west, and a Scientist with vital knowledge is rescued from St Louis. [JC]

Robert Jones Shafer

born South Salem, Ohio: 29 January 1920

works

• The Conquered Place (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1954) [hb/]
  • The Naked and the Damned (New York: Popular Library, 1955) [vt of the above: pb/uncredited]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:30 am on 9 December 2023.
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