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Ralph Milne Farley
Roger Sherman Hoar was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General, for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley.
Hoar was the son of Sherman Hoar, grandson of former US Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, great-grandson of Samuel Hoar, and great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Hoar attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He then received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1909 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1911. During World War I, he served in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Hoar was a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general. He was a member of the Marquette University faculty in the graduate school of engineering, and also "taught scientific subjects at Harvard, the Coast Artillery School, [and] the Ordnance School of Application". He also served as attorney of Bucyrus Erie Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Books by Ralph Milne Farley
An Earthman on Venus
The novel concerns electrical engineer Myles Cabot, who disappears from his home in Boston while performing an experiment. He finds himself transported to the planet Venus where he is captured by the Formians, a race of ant-like creatures. After lear...
The Radio Beasts
This is the second book of a fanciful series written by Ralph Milne Farley, pen name for Roger Sherman Hoar. It is an interplanetary adventure in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the first book, "An Earthman On Venus," Myles Cabot, an electrical...
Astounding Stories 20, August 1931
This issue of "Astounding Stories" presents a collection of short stories and novelettes in the science fiction genre. Readers are taken on journeys to the depths of the ocean, the far future, and even the moon, encountering fantastical creatures, ad...
Radio Planet
Radio Planet is a classic science fiction novel by Ralph Milne Farley that explores the challenges and rewards of scientific ingenuity and resourcefulness. The story follows the protagonist, a stranded engineer, as he attempts to build a radio set fr...