The Thing fromOutside Author:George Allan England "George Allan England . . . to my mind, ranks with Edgar Rice Burroughs and Albert Payson Terhune as one of the three supreme literary artists of the house of Munsey."?H.P. Lovecraft When science fiction was a new and yet undefined genre, pre-dating the vast-reaching, intergalactic sagas of Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, one of the most successfu... more »l authors of the era was George Allan England. Garbed in his rapid-paced storytelling, England depicts people affected by advancing technology and unexplainable events, always delving further, towards a central theme, asking the question of ?What if?? What if . . . . . . viewing events from other periods of history became possible? . . . the implantation of a mechanical heart could grant near immortality? . . . Earth were visited by an alien intelligence looking for science projects? . . . a device were created to predict crime before it happens and weed out from society those individuals with predilection for such behaviors? . . . the intelligence of man were surgically spliced with the brutish physic of a great ape? The answers to these and other questions may be discovered in The Thing from?Outside. With an introduction by Tom Roberts« less