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It was the sixth, and by far the worst, storm—-one of the mysterious climactic outbursts that materialized from a clear sky over half a dozen of the Earth’s great cities, did appalling damage, and then disappeared, “as if a switch had been turned off”, as one observer put it. Now one of these onslaughts had struck at London, and had caused one of the great passenger-carrying spaceships of the Dodd Line to crash as she came in to land. One of the survivors, however, had seen something before the ship went out of control—a strange aurora over the South Pole. Called in for consultation, after an investigating jet bomber had vanished in frozen wastes of Antarctica, the Golden Amazon herself set off for the South Pole in the “Ultra”—-to come up against one of the hardest assignments in her adventurous life, with nothing less than the collapse of world civilization as the penalty if she failed.
Author
A prolific author in various genres under his own name, John Francis Russell Fearn also used these pseudonyms: Astron del Martia, Brian Shaw, Conrad G. Holt, Dennis Clive, Frank Jones, Geoffrey Armstrong, Griff, Hugo Blayn, John Russell, K. Thomas Mark Denholm, Paul Lorraine, Polton Cross, Spike Gordon, Thornton Ayre, Vargo Statten, Volsted Gridban, Dom Passante, John Cotton, Ephriam Winiki, Lawrence F. Rose, Earl Titan, Ephraim Winiki. John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Staten’s Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950’s! His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world.
