McDONALD, Raymond

   Joint pseudonym of US writers Raymond Leger (1883-?) and Edward McDonald (1873-?), whose sf novel, The Mad Scientist: A Tale of the Future (1908), features the increasingly dangerous - or effective - interventions of the said SCIENTIST in the dealings of US businessmen and of the US Government itself. The scientist's inclinations are socialist but, surprisingly for 1908, the authors are ambiguous about whether or not he is a menace pureand simple; and the protagonists of the tale find themselves again and again having to cope with uncomfortable revelations - from fraud to conspiracies with German strikebreakers - brought into the open by the scientist's numerous inventions.

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