FOSTER, George C(ecil)

(1893-?)

   UK writer whose first novel of genre interest, The Lost Garden (1930), is a fantasy in which survivors of ATLANTIS experience world history up to the present. In Full Fathom Five (1930) prehistoric episodes are linked by REINCARNATION to scenes set in the present. Awakening (1932) subjects the contemporary (and the future) world to the perspective of a soldier awakening from suspended animation. Cats in the Coffee (1938), under the nom de plume Seaforth, presents through reincarnation a retrospective vision of prehistory, and We Band of Brothers (1939), also as by Seaforth, combines future- WAR events and elucidatory conversations between a man of the deep future and a man of the deep past. The Change (1963) is routine. In almost all his work, conventional plots are twistedto make room for perspectives on the nature of human history; in this sense, GCF illuminates a central strategy of the UK SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE.

   JC/PN

   See also: IMMORTALITY.