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Ralph Milne Farley was the pseudonym of a United States constitutional lawyer, author, and teacher named Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963). Hoar was a remarkable figure: educated at Harvard, he worked as a teacher of mathematics and engineering; an inventor (he created a system of aiming large guns by the stars); and even a Massachusetts state senator. His early magazine science fiction stories were clearly written in imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, particularly the Mars and Venus books.
Farley’s fame peaked in the early 1960s, when Ace Books reissued the series beginning with The Radio Man (retitled in a more Edgar Rice Burroughs-sounding manner as An Earthman on Venus) and following in quick succession with The Radio Beasts and The Radio Planet.
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