COWAN, James

COWAN, James
(1870-1943)
   US writer whose sf novel, Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World (1896), features an ambulatory MOON which deposits upon MARS a balloon whose passengers discover there a new defence of Christianity in the form of parallel EVOLUTION and the multiple incarnation of Christ.
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