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The author’s first and only novel. The novel is narrated by Gregory Beldite, the current owner of Dax-Beldite, a biological research and engineering firm, The Death Guard details the creation and demise of the Flesh Guard, synthetic life forms without thought or emotion designed to replace human beings as soldiers during times of war. As a future war novel, The Death Guard is ahead of its time, predicting not only nuclear weapons and genetic engineering but also radar tracking systems and remote-controlled unmanned drones. Chadwick’s account of Europe engaged in an arms race that consists of covert weapons development, industrial profiteering, and broken peace treaties anticipates the actual Cold War as series of complex chess moves designed to maintain a delicate balance of power. Well-written and thought-provoking, The Death Guard is a seminal work of science fiction on par with H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Chadwick’s vision of England as a wasteland overrun by biological horrors recalls the work of William Hope Hodgson, and his critique of the socio-political forces that underlie warfare establishes his novel firmly in the tradition of later classics such as Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. Despite its rarity and relatively unknown status even today, The Death Guard deserves to be widely acknowledged as a foundational work in the development of science fiction. – Boyd White. Although the author is virtually unknown to the wider public, his work has received attention from literary scholars. The novel contains many themes later developed by L Ron Hubbard and James Blish. Chadwick was a political thinker with socialist tendencies, a Fabian and subsequently an Independent and a disciple of H.G. Wells. Legend has it that Wells used to refer to this book as one of the greatest he had ever read. It was written shortly after World War I, but by the time it was picked up for publication, World War II was already underway and allegedly, Chadwick had been killed in combat, though the 1992 paperback states that he died in 1955. To complicate matters even further, the printing house that was handling the first run of the novel was bombed in an air raid, and almost all copies were destroyed. Consequently, most science fiction fans wrote off The Death Guard as pure myth, a figment of Wells’s prodigious imagination and for years it was considered a lost novel. In 1992 it was republished, with an introduction by Brian Aldiss. The Death Guard was cited in Karl Edward Wagner’s The Thirteen Best Science Fiction Horror Novels and Ramsey Campbell’s Thirteen Novels on the Edge of Horror.
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The author’s first and only novel. The novel is narrated by Gregory Beldite, the current owner of Dax-Beldite, a biological research and engineering firm, The Death Guard details the creation and demise of the Flesh Guard, synthetic life forms without thought or emotion designed to replace human beings as soldiers during times of war. As a future war novel, The Death Guard is ahead of its time, predicting not only nuclear weapons and genetic engineering but also radar tracking systems and remote-controlled unmanned drones. Chadwick’s account of Europe engaged in an arms race that consists of covert weapons development, industrial profiteering, and broken peace treaties anticipates the actual Cold War as series of complex chess moves designed to maintain a delicate balance of power. Well-written and thought-provoking, The Death Guard is a seminal work of science fiction on par with H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Chadwick’s vision of England as a wasteland overrun by biological horrors recalls the work of William Hope Hodgson, and his critique of the socio-political forces that underlie warfare establishes his novel firmly in the tradition of later classics such as Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. Despite its rarity and relatively unknown status even today, The Death Guard deserves to be widely acknowledged as a foundational work in the development of science fiction. – Boyd White. Although the author is virtually unknown to the wider public, his work has received attention from literary scholars. The novel contains many themes later developed by L Ron Hubbard and James Blish. Chadwick was a political thinker with socialist tendencies, a Fabian and subsequently an Independent and a disciple of H.G. Wells. Legend has it that Wells used to refer to this book as one of the greatest he had ever read. It was written shortly after World War I, but by the time it was picked up for publication, World War II was already underway and allegedly, Chadwick had been killed in combat, though the 1992 paperback states that he died in 1955. To complicate matters even further, the printing house that was handling the first run of the novel was bombed in an air raid, and almost all copies were destroyed. Consequently, most science fiction fans wrote off The Death Guard as pure myth, a figment of Wells’s prodigious imagination and for years it was considered a lost novel. In 1992 it was republished, with an introduction by Brian Aldiss. The Death Guard was cited in Karl Edward Wagner’s The Thirteen Best Science Fiction Horror Novels and Ramsey Campbell’s Thirteen Novels on the Edge of Horror.

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