Roger Sherman Hoar

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Roger Sherman Hoar 1910

Roger Sherman Hoar (also known by the pen name Ralph Milne Farley ; born April 8, 1887 in Waltham , Massachusetts ; died October 10, 1963 in South Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was an American engineer, patent attorney, politician, and science fiction writer .

Life

Born into a distinguished New England family steeped in tradition - his father Sherman Hoar was a congressman and one of his ancestors, Roger Sherman , was a signatory to the United States' Declaration of Independence - Farley began as a sports reporter for the Boston Daily Post , then taught surveying, and eventually studied at Harvard . After graduating, he gave courses in engineering, physics and mathematics there and at Marquette University in Milwaukee . From 1921 to 1954 he was the head of the legal and patent department at the Bucyrus-Erie Company , after which he worked as a patent engineer. In 1911 he was for the Democratic Party in the Massachusetts Senate voted.

He is best known for his science fiction stories, all of which he published under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley , and especially for the radio series, a loosely linked series of short novels and novellas, most of which are sequels in the early stages SF magazines were reprinted. The first novel in the series was The Radio Man , which appeared in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1924 in four parts . It is an obviously based on the Mars tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs . Hoar was friends with Burroughs and wrote for his enjoyment, which is why this is an early example of fan fiction . The hero of the story is the radio engineer Myles Cabot, who is accidentally transferred to the planet Venus through matter transmission , where horse-sized giant ants, the Formians (Latin formica "ant") have ruled the Cupians for 500 years. The Cupians are largely human-like, blond and blue-eyed, but deaf. They communicate via radio waves using two antennas on their heads. Cabot is captured and gets to know Lilli, the beautiful princess of the Cupians. Cabot falls in love with Lilli and eventually manages to lead the Cupians in a successful revolt against the Formians.

The first radio story was soon followed by The Radio Beasts (1925) and The Radio Planet (1926) and then a few more sequels over the years and decades. In addition, Hoar published almost 50 short stories, belonged to the group of Milwaukee Fictioneers and was friends with Stanley G. Weinbaum , with whom he also worked several times. In 1938 he made Raymond A. Palmer editor of Amazing Stories .

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Fiction (as Ralph Milne Farley)

Radio series
  • 1 The Radio Man (1924, also as An Earthman on Venus )
  • 2 The Radio Beasts (1925)
  • 3 The Radio Planet (1926)
  • 4 The Radio Flyers (1929)
  • 5 The Radio Gun-Runners (1930)
  • 7 The Golden City (1933)
  • 8 The Radio Menace (1930)
  • 9 The Radio Man Returns (short story, 1939)
  • 10 The Radio Minds of Mars (1955, 1969)
  • 12 The Radio War (1932, 1934)
Novels
  • Caves of Ocean (1931)
  • The Radio Pirates (1931)
Collections
  • The Hidden Universe (1950)
  • The Omnibus of Time (1950)
  • Strange Worlds (1952)
  • The Radio Minds (2008)
Short stories
  • Another Dracula? (1930)
  • The Flashlight Brigade (1930)
  • The Vanishing Man (1930)
  • The Danger from the Deep (1931)
  • The Time-Traveler (1931)
  • Variant: The Time Traveler (1931)
  • The Hieroglyphics (1931)
  • Abductor Minimi Digit (1932)
  • The Degravitator (1932)
  • The Whistle (1932)
  • The Immortals (1934)
  • Annabel Reeves (1935)
  • The "Rexmel" (1935)
  • The Man Who Met Himself (1935)
  • Smothered Seas (1936, with Stanley G. Weinbaum)
  • Treadmill of Doom (1936)
  • Black Light (1936)
  • Liquid Life (1936)
  • Vallisneria Madness (1937)
  • A Month a Minute (1937)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1938)
  • The House of Ecstasy (1938)
  • The Invisible Bomber (1938, as Lt. John Pease)
  • Time for Sale (1938)
  • Horror's Head (1938, as John Pease)
  • Revolution of 1950 (1938, with Stanley G. Weinbaum, also as The Dictator )
  • The Hidden Universe (1939)
  • Eric of Aztalan (1939)
  • Major McCrary's Vision (1939)
  • The Stratosphere Menace (1939)
  • The Bottomless Pool (1939, with Robert Bloch)
  • Pe-Ra, Daughter of the Sun (1939)
  • Mystery of the Missing Magnate (1939)
  • The Time-Wise Guy (1940)
  • The Living Mist (1940)
  • Variant: We, the Mist (1940)
  • Rescue Into the Past (1940)
  • Test Tube Twin (1941)
  • The Time Capsule (1941)
  • City of Lost Souls (1941, with Al P. Nelson)
  • I Killed Hitler (1941)
  • The Immortality of Alan Whidden (1942)
  • Holy City of Mars (1942, with Al P. Nelson)
  • Wings of Death (1943)
  • Dangerous Love (1946)
  • Stranded in Time (1950)
  • The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock (1950)
  • The Revenge of the Great White Lodge (1950)
  • The Man Who Lived Backward (1950)
  • Man That Lived Backwards (1975)
  • Another Dracula (1982)
  • Under the Radical Sign (2006)

Nonfiction (as Roger Sherman Hoar)

  • The Tariff Manual (1912)
  • Constitutional Conventions: Their Nature, Powers, and Limitations (1917, online )
  • Patents: What a Business Executive Should Know About Patents (1926, revised as Patent Tactics and Law , 1935, 1950)
  • Conditional Sales: Law and Local Practices for Executive and Lawyer (1929, revised edition 1937)
  • Unemployment Insurance in Wisconsin (1932, revised 1934)

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personal data
SURNAME Hoar, Roger Sherman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farley, Ralph Milne (pseudonym); Pease, John (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltham , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1963
Place of death South Milwaukee , Wisconsin