The Lanson Screen

by Arthur Leo Zagat

A Novelette of Mad Catastrophe.

Hardcover

First published September 12, 2011

About the author

Arthur Leo Zagat was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction. Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally. Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner. Zagat wrote about 500 stories that appeared in a variety of pulp magazines including Thrilling Wonder Stories, Argosy and Astounding. His novel, Seven Out of Time, was published by Fantasy Press in 1949.

Reviews

[Quirkyreader · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would have been a perfect Twilight Zone episode.

[Estott · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short story from 1936. As part of a weapons test a scientist surrounds Manhattan island with an impenetrable shield, but he is killed without revealing how to turn it off. What might lead to a pulpish last minute rescue turns very dark as we jump thirty years into the future and witness the dropping of the shield and the revealing of how the city died. Full points to the author for not providing a happy ending.

[Jonathan Stevens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very dark, surprisingly.