![]() ![]() Armstrong gets involved with the sister of this man, beautiful physicist Clair Mandle, and with her help, and that of a newspaperman and a PI, he starts to get close to the truth. One other scientist had similar ideas - but when Armstrong talks to him he suddenly dies. Armstrong decides that some organized opposition is sabotaging the rockets. The previous 17 rockets have all blown up, mostly just as they were about to reach the moon. The story involves John Armstrong, an engineer and inventor involved with the 18th attempted moon shot. I read it in the serialized version, then a later, strangely revised, book version. It's a surprisingly long book for a three-part serial: about 92,000 words. Here is a slightly belated birthday review, covering two of his novels that were Astounding serials, "Dreadful Sanctuary" and "Call Him Dead" aka Three to Conquer, and a couple of short stories as well.Įric Frank Russell's "Dreadful Sanctuary" was serialized in Astounding in 1948. He was born on January 6, 1905, and died in 1978. ![]() ![]() Eric Frank Russell was a UK writer who was quite popular in SF from the appearance of his classic novel Sinister Barrier in Unknown in 1939 (supposedly one motivation for John Campbell starting that fantasy companion to Astounding was his desire to publish Sinister Barrier) until his retirement in 1965. ![]()
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