Blair's aliens

The world is threatened by attacks from alien forces. Fortunately a man called Blair comes to the rescue.

Want to read on? Try the 1954 novel Dark Andromeda by A. J. Merak. First edition available now in the catalogue which arrived today from the bookseller, Peter Ellis. Pages a little browned. £50.

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'Blair dug down into the breast pocket of his tunic and came up with the pink identification card, carried compulsorily by all members of the Hundred Suns Federation ...'

Compulsory ID cards?

Fifty years ago A.J. Merak had at least one answer to the dystopian nightmare of a Blairite future.

Take a pseudonym. I don't suppose it will be too hard. A. J. Merak was and is John Glasby too.

Both of them highly prolific identities.