FOX, Samuel Middleton

FOX, Samuel Middleton
(1856-1941)
   UK writer whose sf novel, Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow (1887), a fairly mild-mannered SATIRE of high society, features a pleasure city on the Riviera which proves too expensive to run.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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