ELLIS, T(homas) Mullett

(1850-1919)

   UK poet and writer whose sf novel, Zalma (1895), features the protracted NEAR FUTURE attempts of the eponymous wrong-side-of-the-bed Russian-Spanish princess to revenge herself on the heir to the throne of England, who has for unclear reasons swiftly annulled their morganatic marriage. Anthrax-bearing balloons are brought into play, and the tale closes on a possible Europe-wide socialist upheaval.

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   See also: WEAPONS.