JOHNSON, Owen M(cMahon)

(1878-1952)

   US writer in various genres. The protagonist of The Coming of the Amazons: A Satiristic Speculation on the Scientific Future of Civilization (1931) finds on awakening in AD2181 from SUSPENDED ANIMATIONthat women rule and that a simple sex-role reversal accounts for humiliating changes in masculine behaviour. He resists vigorously, but without success. Unlike most stories on this theme, the book treats women with some sympathy.

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