GANN, William D.

GANN, William D.
(1878-1955)
   US businessman and writer whose sf novel, The Tunnel Thru the Air, or Looking Back from 1940 (1927), features a protagonist whose Fundamentalist belief in the Bible gives him sufficient predictive prowess to dodge a great depression (which WDG dates 1928-32), while at the same time impelling him to invent various superweapons, which are used to defend the USA against her external enemies. New York is then renamed the City of the Lord. All ends happily.
   JC

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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