BENNETT, Alfred Gordon

BENNETT, Alfred Gordon
(1901-1962)
   UK writer, documentary film-maker and founder of Pharos Books, through which he published a fantasy, Whom the Gods Destroy (1946). His sf novel The Demigods (1939) depicts a world menaced by giant ants, who derive their abilities from a central controlling brain. His father was Arthur BENNETT.
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   Other works: The Forest of Fear (1924); The Sea of Sleep (1926; vt The Sea of Dreams 1926 US).
   See also: HIVE-MINDS.

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